Toyotaâ??s Prius Bike With Thought-Controlled Gear Shifters

Remember Firefox? No, not the bloated open-source web browser, but Craig Thomasâ?? sleek Soviet fighter plane which had thought-controlled weapons systems. Wouldnâ??t it be cool if somebody, somehow, did that to a bike?

It turns out that somebody has. Toyota, in cahoots with Saatchi & Saatchi, Parlee Cycles and the boffins at Deeplocal, has come up with the PXP, or Prius Bike. The â??Priusâ?? part might be mere branding, but the bike itself is pretty damn awesome, right down to the thought-controlled gears. Yes, you read that right. Thought-controlled gears.

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