This cute video is a little feature on my BEHEMOTH bicycle during the time I was at UCSD (San Diego) beginning the Microship project. It’ll Never Work was a BBC children’s program showcasing new inventions in science and technology, and it ran seven seasons (1993-1999). This is from Program 6 of Series 2 (1994), and…

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This is one of my favorite videos from my 30 years of building technomadic machines… it came at a heady, exciting moment when the new “world wide web” was hitting public consciousness. I had a lab at UCSD at the time, working with teams of engineering students on the Microship system, and this delightful Australian…

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At the cusp between the BEHEMOTH bicycle era and the beginning of the Microship project, this very well-written article appeared in Silicon Valley. I was just winding down a long mothership trek around the US, hauling the bike to speaking gigs and schmoozing for lab space to build the Microship, and the author did an excellent…

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1993 was a pivotal year… traveling the US in a mobile lab, doing trade shows and speaking gigs while questing urgently for lab space. At every stop, I schmoozed with local industry and academia, looking for a facility where I could park and build the Microship. This event, the Telecommunications Association conference, was no different……

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Anticipating the Smartphone… I did this as an email interview at the beginning of April 1993, and it focuses on wireless data issues related to the BEHEMOTH bicycle, the upcoming Microship project, and the future of nomadic connectivity. But the highlight is my answer to the question bold-faced below… in which I described (with some…

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This is one of my favorite videos from the BEHEMOTH era, and it aired on the Discovery Channel on April 27, 1993. The presenter is Richard Hart, and filming was done near San Luis Obispo while I was in a layover between speaking tours… on a quest for a place to set up a Microship…

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I don’t know the exact date of this, nor even the publication… but it is delightful. The author is Jack Rochester, a prolific Boston writer and cyclist, and the piece is the result of his visit with me during my appearance at the Mobile Computing Expo. His writing is playful, and really catches the spirit…

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Cycling into the space age

This is a much-loved publication Down Under, and this somewhat amusing story was clearly written by an enthusiastic reporter… a few things were lost in translation (like my email address). But I love the imagery of the “invisible envelope of dataspace which surrounds Steve and his bike.” Australian Women’s Weekly April, 1993 Steve Roberts is…

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, the BEHEMOTH is coming by Ian Fried, STUDENT writer Miami Student March 9, 1993 It weighs over 500 pounds. It’s powered by humans but has a voice and three brains. It can only be called BEHEMOTH and it’s coming to Miami. BEHEMOTH is a 105-geared bike featuring a computer…

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This short photo/caption piece in Stars and Stripes, the news service of the US Military, appeared shortly after my speaking gig at the Mobile World conference and expo in Boston (Hynes Auditorium) in early March of 1993.  Steven Roberts sits on his custom-made, 105-speed, computerized bicycle at the Mobile World Exhibition in Boston on Wednesday.…

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