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The Ford Motor Company has announced plans to implement Smart Mobility Plan. The corporation has unveiled the MoDe:Flex concept an eBike that provides hands-free, turn-by-turn navigation while tracking your heart rate. It also bring all the real-time data to your smartwatch as well.

Connecting to users' smartphones by utilizing the MoDe:Link app, the MoDe:Flex provides up to the minute information pertaining to navigation, weather, time and traffic, among other features.

A user with a smartwatch can then activate a feature such as "no sweat" mode, which, based on the rider's heart rate, can increase electric pedal assist to ensure a rider does not break a sweat. So, for those bike riders who have the issue of showing up to drenched in sweat, there's an app for that.

There is even more to this eBike. Ford also announced that the wearable device comes with safety notifications. Like when your about to hit a pothole. The handlebars will trigger a vibration and the smartwatch will beep as a warning signal. So that your face doesn't get notified by the pavement.

Check out the video below for more information. It will get you pumped about this eBike!

Source: Mashable

Ford Unveils Smart Bike

U.S.A. handmade Watch Wallets ($380- $450.00) designed by Discommon are not to be taken lightly. Don't be fooled by the look, beneath the waxed Italian leather and tweed lining, there's D3O® impact absorbing foam throughout to keep your watches extra secure. So no more hiding your watches in your socks. Carry them around like a gentleman pro. Watch Wallet marries your most prized travel possessions – your watches and passport. You may have to wait a while since all three variations are currently sold out.

The Watch Wallet

This house in Austin Texas sits along the shores of Lake Travis. It is called The Tower House by Andersson-Wise Architects. It has just the right touches to stand out from its limestone neighbors while managing to blend in to the forest. Built with the goal of adding additional living space to one of the aforementioned cabins, this separate structure is comprised of three floors, with a bedroom on each of the bottom floors, and a terrace on the top floor. Its wooden exterior contrasts nicely with the surrounding rock, and begs visitors to climb for a better view of the water beyond.

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Tower House in Austin Texas

Jessica Sjöstedt‘s champagne bottle packaging concept for Devout Champagne catches the eyes and has a great geometrical style. The unusually-shaped packaging has a drawstring at the top and comes apart in the middle. With its pleasing polygonal pattern and pastel tones, it’s certainly not like other Champagne boxes that I have seen on the market. What do you think of this concept packaging?

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Devout Champagne Packaging Concept

No need for heavy equipment anymore. Just bring your tablet and smartphone and the Mixfader. Mixfader ($75) gives you all the tactile feeling of a physical slider with none of the bulk. This slim aluminum gadget connects wirelessly to your phone or tablet, and uses a companion app to let you control the action with low latency. Its integrated battery provides up to 10 hours of use on a 25 minute charge, the app works with your built-in library as well as with services like SoundCloud and Deezer, and thanks to Bluetooth 4.0 technology, you can use up to two devices, simulating a dual turntable setup. Check out more info on their KickStarter or watch the video below.

If you're not a DJ, but some of yours friends or close family are. Mixfader could be the perfect gift for them! Wink Wink!

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Mixfader

Welcome to Playlist-74. It is now June and the heat is on to lay out at the beach or pool and enjoy some good music. In this installment we have new music by Ben Howard, Woolf And The Wondershow, Lostboycrow and more...

If you want to check out any of the other Playlists then click on TCL Playlists in the menu.

Cover Art by Damion S.

Tracklist

1. Cloaked by Woolf And The Wondershow

2. Come Back To Me (Filous Remix) by Urban Cone ft. Tove Lo

3. Say You Want Me by Lostboycrow

4. Damn That Valley by U.S, Girls

5. Time Is Dancing by Ben Howard

6. Get Me By by Boy Scout

7. Kiss Me Again (RAC Mix) by The Drums

8. Money All Around by HOLYCHILD

9. Rat King (Ft. Johnny Whitney) by Glowbug

10. La Llorna by Amy Ayanda

11. Pelicans We by Cosmo Shledrake

12. Taste by Braids

13. Stoic by Belwoorf

TCL Playlist-74 from The Collective Loop on 8tracks Radio.

The Collective Loop Playlist-74

These were designed with portability in mind, am I right? The Master & Dynamic x Zero Halliburton Headphone Kit ($750) combines high end audio tools with the most trusted name is travel cases. Only 200 units were made, and each includes a pair of Master & Dynamic's MH40 Over Ear headphones, or their equally impressive MH30 On Ear headphones. Also included is a matching metal headphone stand, the new MM800 Boom Mic, all the pertinent accessories, and a sleek aluminum case from the go-to brand for protective luggage, Zero Halliburton. Top notch sound, design, and portability for the serious music lover. Plus, look how stylish these look and I'm sure the sound is just as great. They're also available in an assorted colors as well.

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Master & Dynamic x Zero Halliburton Headphone Kit

Super pumped to get to see Tycho again this year in Tampa on June 9th, at The Ritz in Ybor, but if your not in Tampa there are a few other place you can catch his show at. They also have shows in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, United States and Canada. See the whole list below.

Hope to see some of you at the show in Tampa.

Tycho Summer Tour

I'm a sucker for double exposure art. There is something interesting and calming about them. So let me introduce Norweign based visual artist Andreas Lie's and his double exposures of animals and their habitats. If you are interested in any of his works then check out his shop on Society6.

Which one is your favorite? They are not all here so check out his site to see them all