Yury and his magic bikes

[Dancing_Dave]

Who says no news is good news?:)
From the Village Voice:

"Thanks to this week's protests of the Republican convention, the streets of Manhattan have become an outdoor gallery for the latest trends in the fusion of art and digital technology.

A loose network of tech-savvy activists has been working for months—in some cases years—to construct intriguingly bizarre electronic contraptions for creative resistance. This new breed of wireless activists is moving the Internet's power off the screen and into the streets.

"Why should I be inside, staring at a monitor?" says Yury Gitman, a 28-year-old Brooklynite and inventor of the MagicBike, a bicycle that's been hacked to double as a free wireless Internet hot spot. Yury, a quiet, soft-spoken sort of guy who cites Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and the scientist Nikolai Tesla as his heroes— "because they were working with the emerging media of their times"—envisions himself as the ice cream man of the wireless age."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0435/dayal.php