Cy-fi Brings Your Tunes Straight To You At 25 or 30 Miles Per Hour
Posted on 08 December 2008, at 10:38 pm, by Doug Goldring
I used to be pretty heavily into bike riding. I’d routinely head out on all day bicycle treks. just me and my Schwinn. The problem was my tunes. Specifically, wires. My bike riding days were well before the onset of Bluetooth and wireless devices. This meant that I was routinely tugging my Walkman (yes, this also predated mp3 players and ipods) out of my pocket. It is a wonder it survived at all. The second problem was that bike riding on busy streets with headphones is…well…dangerous. You need to be able to hear the sounds of oncoming traffic if you hope to stand a chance out there.
Well, along comes a new product, Cy-fi, which solves both of these problems. Cy-fi is a wireless speaker, designed for use while bike riding, but is also great for camping, boating, hiking, or just sitting around. Pretty much anywhere you might need a lightweight, portable (and oh yeah, wireless) speaker, take a look at this. It comes in two flavors, Bluetooth for use with any A2DP enabled cell phone or device. More intriguingly, however, is the Kleer flavor which connects with any iPod. I have been following the new wireless technology, Kleer, and am excited to finally see it being used in market-ready products.
Check it out at www.mycyfi.com. It will run you $199 for the iPod Kleer version or $179 for the Bluetooth version.
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
A bicyclist myself, I am always looking for ways to have the entertainment of music during a long ride but not lose the safety factor of having my ears available for keeping track of traffic around me. This is an interesting concept–not sure how good the sound would be while riding a bike. My phone solution has been to have a mono bluetooth headset so I still have an ear available for traffic sounds.