Cyclists get a rough time of it on the roads, and if being side-swiped by cars, trucks and buses all day long isn’t enough, when they finally dismount they still need to lock up their bikes. To that end, Velo Labs‘ Skylock, a new ‘smart’ U-lock for your bike created by ex-Boeing and Jawbone engineers is looking to crowdfund_$50,000 in order to bring the first batch to consumers. Rather than use a platform like Kickstarter or Indiegogo, Velo is using its own site to host the campaign so it can “maintain control over the timeline and the manufacturing process,” a...

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