Although Apple didn’t name out bikes particularly when it really useful iPhone customers not mount their iPhones to bikes and scooters, anybody who’s ever tried to connect a smartphone to a bicycle’s handlebars is aware of it may be simply as dangerous. But of all the opposite methods there are to get GPS instructions whereas out for a journey, having a big directional arrow projected on the road ahead of you is, hands down, the coolest.

Although mostly used for pointing at issues and intergalactic house warfare, there are literally some intelligent methods lasers can be utilized with bicycles. A decade in the past firms had been integrating them into bike taillights to undertaking digital lane markers on the highway round a bike owner to create a digital protected house that drivers and different cyclists will subconsciously keep away from. We’ve even seen laser projectors added to bike headlights to undertaking a extremely seen warning on the highway about 20 ft in entrance of riders in order that pedestrians and automobiles will see them coming earlier than they see the precise bicycle.

This answer, nonetheless, makes use of lasers for a mix of security and comfort, offering cyclists with easy-to-read directional cues whereas they hold their eyes on the highway forward always, as an alternative of requiring them to repeatedly look down at a smartphone display screen or a sensible wearable on their wrist.

The machine demonstrated on this video known as the LaserCube and is actually a compact projector that may create photographs, textual content, and even animations, utilizing a laser gentle supply. At simply shy of $1,000, the least costly model of the LaserDice isn’t precisely low cost (what number of thousand greenback units do you actually need to strap to your bike?) and the boxy gadget is definitely a lot bigger than different bike-mounted GPS satnavs supplied by firms like Garmin. But following an enormous glowing arrow that counts down the space to your vacation spot? That nearly appears well worth the threat of scrambling to unmount the LaserDice out of your bike and stuffing it right into a backpack when it begins to rain.

Wicked Lasers doesn’t go into particular particulars about the way it created this tantalizing tech demo, however the huge enchantment of the LaserDice is that it’s extremely customizable and may be related to different cell apps. So on this occasion, the space and directional info is being pulled from a mapping app working on a smartphone with GPS. Is it probably the most sensible technique to get to the place that you must go? Probably not, as anybody who’s ever tried to navigate with only a compass will let you know. Having turn-by-turn road instructions is much extra helpful. But there’s no purpose this concept can’t be refined (and miniaturized) additional and constructed proper into a motorbike’s handlebars—it might undoubtedly be well worth the improve.