Heard across a street. Highly intelligent. A bike alarm like no other! $210 CAD. Direct from manufacturer: $120 CAD.
The M!nder logo has been finalized, and should be published in the next few days. Thanks to the efforts and creativity of the great Ko Kimura at No Shortscuts Studio, here in Vancouver.
An outdoor test of one parking-scenario has been carried out, successfully. I’ll post a link to it here, if I don’t forget. It will certainly be added to the M!nder tests playlist.
The scenario involves an unlocked bike: The thief simply grabs the bike, and rides away as quickly as he can. (Yes, there are other possibilities for this, in different contexts, but those were not the subject of this test.) The system responded well, though there are further refinements which I will have to design.
Not that a M!nder allows you to do away with locks! Not at all. Simply, the test involves a very particular scenario–and, even then, the system might not respond!
An obvious example of the innumerable scenarios where a M!nder would offer nothing for an unlocked bike would be at night, on a quiet street, in an unsafe area, with a sufficiently appealing bike, with no passers-by except for a pair of very interested eyes, and you’ve popped into a shop ‘for a sec.’ but it’s taken you longer than expected! Another would be in a busy area, where a nearby person realizes that s/he can gently, casually walk the bike away, as if it’s his/hers.
