Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Bike Messenger finds his voice
Wired News reports on a New York bike messenger who "uses a homemade, wireless, bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the street."
A webcam mounted on the back takes a picture of the chalked-up road and sends it, along with GPS coordinates, back to Kinberg's website. Whoever wrote the message will then be able to e-mail a picture of his or her protest as an e-card. There will also be an interactive map of all the messages printed, Kinberg said.Thanks to Tim Manners of Reveries for a heads up on this story.
"I'd been researching bike culture in New York and noticed a big overlap with activist culture," said Kinberg. "This project blends technology and activism. If Paul Revere were alive today, he wouldn't be on a horse, he'd be on a bike."
