Baidu DuBike – A Smart Mountain Bike That Generates Electricity

Baidu, which is also affectionately called the Chinese Google, together with the Industrial Design Department of China's Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed a prototype of a self-sufficient smart mountain bike DuBike, which measures your physical activity while riding, like various sports meters, performs the functions of a bicycle counter and still produces its own electricity.

DuBike mountain bike Chinese browser Baidu via the rear converter hub kinetic energy into electricity, which serves to drive many sensors, which measure cadence, speed, pressure on the pedals and seat, heart rate and other essential parameters, and to power the lights (including turn signals). Based on the collected data, it makes sense physical fitness cyclist and with assistance geolocation (by determining the current position) suggests suitable routes that are nearby.

On the steering wheel there is a navigation panel with lights and indicators.

While the cyclist has navigation in front of your eyes, as it is displayed on a special module that is an integral part of the steering wheel, and all other collected data is collected in a special app on your smartphone, where bluetooth delivers them.