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hey everyone welcome back to the scene at stage coming to you live from CES 2015 today right now we're checking out the fly cly smart wheel with Niko the co-founder and CEO of the company tell us about what this device does apparently it turns any traditional bicycle into an electric bike how does that work yeah first thank you for having me of course yeah so if you want to write a bike to school or work and don't be sweaty right that's what we want to do I have I sweat a lot so I have a lot of apathy empathy with that rather yeah explain how I won't sweat with this yeah so you have your own bike already we just take off the wheel yeah you put our wheel on and this we call it a smart wheel right and it's a pedal assist so whenever you start pedaling it helps you so this is it so you pedal it helps you and if you want to stop just pedal backwards this way it will stop you and also recharge the battery so how does that work it whatever the mechanism inside here generates electricity how yeah so inside here we have motor battery old electronics bluetooth all the sensors everything is inside here sure so it just when you start pedaling the sensors now give you the boost whenever they they know that you want to stop they just start braking wow that's very cool so there's a lot of different bike sizes wheel sizes how many variations is available yeah so we're launching it today so it's available to purchase on our website fly glidecam and it comes in four sizes you can buy just a hub and build your own wheel you can buy a 20 inch wheel 26 inch and 28 inch wheel and it also comes in white and silver color Wow so that's stylish I respect that now what about actually getting this on my bike what kind of process is involved with that yeah it's actually very simple so you just take off your rear wheel okay and you put our wheel on you put the chain on you screw the nuts and you're ready yeah I think we got some video of how that works you just have to be in a white room and then all of a sudden you get yourself a an electrical bike so now what are we talking about in terms of costs because this feels and looks expensive what are we dealing with here yeah so if you want to buy the whole wheel it costs 1,100 okay and just a hub it's $1,000 and also we partner up with to buy companies from united states right and if you want to buy a whole bike with a smart wheel it starts around 1500 so that's the move right there it's going that way instead of retrofitting your bike right what do you think well it really depends a lot of people actually like their own bikes right so they just buy the rear wheel and that's it you're telling me before that you know you didn't want to remove the sort of organic feeling of peddling right how is that taken into consideration yeah exactly so I didn't want to make a moped or motorcycle right out of a bicycle sure so that's why it's a pedal assist so whenever you pedaling it just gives you that boost and it helps you pedal right so you actually a lot of people that try that said they feel stronger with this right yeah very cool is this something that can fit any single bike out there there's no restrictions there's not you know not compatible with you know a specific kind or is this universal yeah it's actually universal it fits on any bike from mountain bike road bike city bike to foldable bike riding tricycles very cool um there's an app that complements the whole experience right can you show us what goes on with the app and what's available yeah just pop it into that camera no sort of narrow right there for you so the app connects through bluetooth we have an Android and on the app you can actually see how fast it going the duration in the distance the battery level and also one of the great thing is that you can lock the wheel with the app you can lock it you can lock it so nobody can ride right away really can you lock it while someone's riding it no that'd be a lot of fun all right so what about there's like GPS functionality on ax - exactly so we have a map here so it tracks where you're riding so for example last week I was in Amsterdam so we go here okay sorry the next one you kept driving in circles in Amsterdam what's that about which one oh this one let me stir it right here so this one that's cool yeah in the tracks very right and this is really passionate about is that we collect this data and if you want to share it with us right - by city officials and so they know where to put the bicycle lanes so you're sort of like crowdsourcing transportation routes and whatnot exactly so this way we can make cities more bicycle-friendly very cool very cool there you go all right very cool so what is the next iteration what do you guys sort of see in the future once there's like a good insulation base weirdy I mean is there like a life span for something like this how does that work yeah so I mean we did a Kickstarter last year so we really started it sure this year we set up the production and everything today we're launching it and but yeah I see in the future I really want to make the bicycle more friendly to people and really that everybody will write bicycles in the cities great and then you can also get an $80.00 complimentary sort of device that works in tandem with the charger as well yes exactly so we also develop a smart light and the smart light is three-in-one where it's a light for your bicycle it's a holder for your phone but you also charges your phone while you're riding actually it collects the electricity from the front wheel excellent all right well there you have it the fly Kleist smart wheel it's available right now coming up at the bottom of the hour seeing its next big thing supersession the topic is new realities we'll take an in-depth look at virtual reality augmented reality featuring the top minds from oculus VR technical illusions Razorfish and jaunt VR stay tuned