‘Bike With a Brain’ Tweets Across America for Charity

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Jennifer Latkiewicz

Tweeting its way across America for charity is Precious, a “thinking” Specialized cruiser equipped with an array of sensors and circuitry that gives information — distance covered, temperature, speed, direction and GPS location — that the bike then to create humorous tweets about how it’s “feeling.”

According to the Precious website:

Precious’s brain is an on-board device that captures all of his experiences, combined with a cloud-based system that analyzes those experiences. Put this all together and get a bike that’s able to express itself in his own words. He shares his up-to-the-moment thoughts and has a subconscious which allows him to dream about all he’s been through. Take a peek into how his brain functions below…

“Outside Booneville. Daniel Boone, I challenge you to a ‘coonskin cap off! Oh, wait. You’re dead,” Tweeted Precious before showing its geekier side by posting “Kirksville. Thought there’d be more Shatners,” when riding through Missouri.

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Created by a group of New York City-based inventors called Breakfast, Precious, with some help from its rider Jansen, is on a coast to coast journey to raise money for Livestrong, in its fight against the “biggest douchebag of all”, Cancer. [See their "Yes, I am Precious" video here.] The ‘bike with a brain’ is currently in Bardstown, KY, 931 miles into its journey and has raised over $3,000 toward its goal.

You can follow Precious on Twitter or at its website, as well as make donations to support the team’s Livestrong challenge.

via Engadget