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Right, so they'd require vendors to have to have apple specific software that would break existing compatible payment methods then?

Retailers desperately do want mobile payments to work, and the catch is that they will only accept 1 or 2 systems. There is only the surface area near tills, only the connectivity, and only the budget for 1 or 2 systems.

For a long time we're going to have places accept just Apple devices... and those retailers are going to have valued customers feel negatively towards the retailer for treating them as 2nd class customers. And this will work in reverse too... Android solutions will emerge very fast, and probably based on the NFC tech that is already proven and that has already rolled out over the past couple of years.

I could be wrong here, but isn't apple pay meant to work with standard contactless readers, as in the ones that are already popping up around the UK to work with the new generation of contactless cards that banks are now issuing? If so thats something that android can already interact with, but it seems to have been held back somewhat in the uk by carriers and banks wanting to control this by making users go through their own apps such as http://explore.ee.co.uk/cashontap. This was meant to get better with host card emulation that was included with kitkat but there seems to have been little said about it in the uk since it introduction. So I could be completely wrong, but in theory android should be able to interact with the same readers that apple pay can do, but the lack of apps to do this through is the main thing holding it back. So in theory apple's influence should hopefully lead to more contactless readers being installed around the uk which is a good thing for pretty much everyone with an nfc enabled phone as soon as the right apps arrive on other platforms

No problem, does seem like they're trying to hide it though, putting it right down at the bottom of the menu with a load of stuff most people will probably never touch!

Towards the bottom of the main settings menu there should be a date and time section (under the system subheading), options to change the time will be there

No Liggett destroying it either. Good stuff.

Was watching the other day, and I was pretty impressed with the commentary.

Although it might just have been the fact they managed no to keep repeating the same phrase every 5 minutes...

From ebay finds

Specially made as I'm 6'4" but wanted the light weight and stiffness of a small bike

BTW... to the celebration of all... if the queue of user changes has calmed down... I'm doing to make a typographic test suite and then much with the styles to look at reducing the font by a step

To go against the grain of all the 'I hate change' posts, I really like the new fonts, especially when viewing on a bigger screen, its nice to finally have actual readable line lengths rather than the several hundred characters per line on the old forum. I say make them wait a month, and by then they'll all have forgotten and be bitching about something else...

Author of the Chrome extension here. Let me know if you just find it useful or if you have any other feedback or wishlist.

(No Firefox version I'm afraid; I just don't use that browser.)

Hide running would be great!

I think if theres one thing thats missed in the debate about designers and bikes, its the fact that essentially the bike industry has is own quite specific aesthetic. I know when I started riding again a few years back everything I liked and wanted to own, I would definitely consider complete anti now - if you think about it, lots of the bright colours you see on shit like creates could be at home in other areas, but when you try and throw that kind of thing at a bike it simply doesn't work.

This is really evident when you then see well respected designers try there hand at designing a bike eg.

by Yves Behar

or

by Philippe Starck

Both well respected designers (admittedly Starck is a bit of an aestheticist, and I'm not really a fan, but he's definitely not a student playing around with ideas and trying to capture peoples attention) who have successfully designed and developed products for a range of different industries. It seems over the length of time one of these projects takes to put together, people can struggle to get a proper grasp for the aesthetic trends that the bike industry is driven by.

I'm a recent industrial design graduate myself, and I've always said that I'm staying the fuck away from designing bikes, unless I'm working directly for a bike company, simply because of all the shit that well respected designers keep turning out.

^^ Don't forget there are cobbles as well that really won't suit him. I say send him to the Vuelta next - strong shot at two grand tour wins in his first year of team leadership at the age of 24 is hardly shabby. Then prepare him for a full on tour assault next season.

Anyway, going to be an interesting final 17kms

Your talking about a roaming camera.

You might have one if there was 2 groups. Ironically when there are several groups none are spare innit.

I'm not really sure the helicopters add that much when they're just hovering over one group on a mountain stage like this though. If they've got a camera bike on each main group then surely they can pull the helicopter back to help with the overall picture

^^^They had them up and running during the confusion towards the bottom of the descent though, just weren't being used to explain the situation.

^^^Yeah I realise theres a lot lacking in terms of technology, but I'm talking about using what they have now more efficiently - surely as soon as the team know that the group has split up they should be on the radio to the helicopter team to start scanning the road and find out what's happening from their unique perspective being able to see large chunks of the terrain where the race is going on, rather than just sticking with the same shots and waiting for the messages to filter through from race radio? I'm talking about the people in control of the cameras rather than the commentators

As an aside to what's going on at the moment, the TV directors could really do a lot more to make race situations like this more understandable to viewers, bike camera shots looking over the shoulders of riders to groups ahead/behind and especially using the helicopters to provide panning shots between each group on the road instead of zooming in and out repeatedly on the same group whilst occasionally being obscured by trees would make a much better viewing experience when things start to break down a bit.

http://www.designboom.com/design/clug-kickstarter-3d-printed-wall-mounted-bike-racks-05-18-2014/

Slow puncture = expensive bike on the floor...

Re: plane.
There was an interesting piece on R4 whilst driving up yesterday.
It was about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory

Which was used to find an Air France downed plane, which was found, but the people involved described that as pure luck. In a search area which is " 'easier' due to the flatter sandier bottom" and a quarter of the size.... And that took 2 years.

Fast Co Labs have been running a very interesting series of articles breaking down ways of predicting where the plane might be if you're so inclined.

Depends on the type of crash and equally how its mounted (the mount shown is both massive and pretty robust looking) - but imagine someone slipping out on a descent, whilst sliding down the road, if the camera where to hit the ground whilst sliding, it could cause the rider's head to jerk even whilst the camera was in the process of falling off, or if the rider fell directly onto it, it could cause the head and neck to pivot around it.

Is there a practical argument against helmet cams? Weight?

Safety - something attached to a rider's helmet could snag in the case of a crash and put force on a rider's neck (mentioned briefly here). I guess with a little effort they could try and integrate one into the surface of the helmet, but from the design of that one in the photo, it doesn't really look like they have any intention of trying to package them neatly...

^^That would definitely make more sense.
Still think its made by HTC every time I hear the name though...

Plus the 'smash your old phone and get one for $1' is a neat promotion tool.

Any more info on this? (don't really want to give them my email just to find out)

If it is really that simple though, it seems like a bit of a shitty move - 'Hey lets create a load of e-waste to get peoples attention'

It could have been doing 30 at the time the guy pulled out but 40 by the time the lambo had time to start braking. Besides that street looks like 15-20mph was a safe speed with cars all around.

The other car pulled out slowly, surely the lambo could and should have stopped.

It is hard to say for sure but I am damn sure that

(1) The lambo was going too fast and / or accelerating too fast, even if they were under the speed limit
and
(2) The lambo did not try to stop ASAP, they tried to be clever and fucked right up.
but
(3) Maybe (only maybe) there is some contributory fault from the other car.

edit - most relevant thing - that lambo clearly is using a fair bit of throttle until about 6 ft from impact. Even if the lambo was driving safely (15-20mph) and there would have been a crash whatever he did (I doubt both of these things) had he slammed on the brakes hard and the moment he saw the guy pull out he might have only hit one car instead of three,

I was only trying to address the idea of a driver making an assumption about another vehicles speed rather than attempting to assess it - in this case assuming that a car is going within the speed limit. Can't really tell much about the rest of the incident seeing as you can't see the manner in which the lambo approaches, just what happens when it hits the other vehicle.

In the real life, when driving in the urban environment you have to be assertive or you will be stuck. People do pull out, but any normal person have enough time to slow down. There are also many junctions where you can't see the approaching traffic in time if the cars are speeding. Simple as that. That Lambo's driver is a certified idiot.

Yes, I realise there is the need to be assertive in some situations to actually get anywhere, but there's still something wrong if whilst you're doing that you don't make a judgement about the speed the vehicle that you're pulling out on is travelling at.

^^^^ The analysis of the sports tracker market is actually quite interesting though, but I do wonder how the usage patterns he suggests compare usage of sporting related goods in general, say new bike purchases or even gym memberships. I would have thought they also exhibit a pretty heavy decline as well, except in the case dedicated users

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/wearables-consumers-abandoning-devices-galaxy-gear

I thought everyone already new the galaxy gear was shit though...