You won’t have to fiddle with the gears on this bike. A Toyota concept model lets riders shift their gears using only the powers of their mind.

The futuristic bike, called the PXP, is the combined work of Toyota, Saatchi LA, Parlee Cycles and Deeplocal. In addition to the mind-reading helmet—it actually detects electrical brain activity—the bike has a built-in smartphone dock and a carbon-fiber frame.

With the PXP, riders can control their gears “without using a single one of their appendages” and instead lets them command an electronic shifter with their own brain waves, captured by a helmet “stuffed with neurotransmitters”, the designers wrote.

The bike’s designers said they were inspired by the Toyota Prius’ innovative technology; in concepting the bike, the designers had asked themselves: “What if the Prius were a bicycle?”



[via Toyota]


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