Scosche BoomBOTTLE Speaker For Bikes [CES 2013]
LAS VEGAS, CES 2013 – There are many ways that you can annoy pedestrians and motorists with your bike: riding on the sidewalk; ringing the bell constantly as if you were a five-year-old child; running red lights without looking first.
And my favorite: riding a municipal bike-share bike the wrong way down a one-way street, whilst texting (not talking – texting) on a cellphone.
Now, Scosche adds to the long list with a speaker that sits in a bike’s bottle-cage.
It’s called the boomBOTTLE, and it’s a waterproof, omnidirectional speaker which slips snugly into your bike’s bottle holder. It’s Bluetooth, runs for 10 hours and has a pair of 40mm drivers to both be heard in traffic and to scare foot-using passersby. It’s even covered in a rugged TPU coating to help it bounce when a pedestrian inevitably knocks you off your ride.
I love it. It solves many problems at once: first, you can ditch the headphones, with their traffic-noise-blocking, cable-tangling ways.
Second, you’ll never need to ring your bell again: just roll along playing something by the Bee Gees and watch people magically dance out of your path.
Third: Music! On a bike! What’s not to like about that. And because it’s Bluetooth, you can control it from your bar-mounted iPhone. We’ve come a long way from mounting a CD changer and a car battery on the rear rack.
- Source Scosche Industries
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
