If you can?t ride your bike safely with one hand, you probably shouldn?t be on the road. Poor control skills, though, are the excuse for the Seil bag, a bikers? backpack with flexible LEDs and circuitry applied to the back which lets you make turn signals with both hands on the bars.
The Seil, by Lee Myung Su Design Lab, comes with a removable, bar-mounted wireless controller. Flick a lever on the side and arrows blink on your back to show where you plan to go. When not being used to warn other road users of your intentions, the LED display flashes with cute little symbols: space-invaders, hearts and the like, guaranteed to either distract or infuriate drivers.
Indicators on bikes keep popping up, either as concepts or as actual products, but never catch on. This is likely because anyone experienced and responsible enough will be comfortable with giving good, clear hand signals and would therefore never pay for extra blinking lights. These things are a novelty, and sticking them on a backpack is even worse. What if it stops working and you lurch across traffic thinking without signaling? Or if you don?t have your pack with you one day and (gasp) are forced to use boring old arms to signal?
Happily, the Seil remains a concept, not an actual product.
Seil bag [Lee Myung Su Design Lab]
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