We’ve seen a lot of bicycles lights and a quite a few bicycle horns. Now we’ve seen both in a single package as Tory Orzeck, an industrial designer from Portland, Ore. has created a device that fuses the two together. Fittingly he named his company FUSE, and has developed the Orp Smart Horn, a combination decibel bike horn and front beacon bike light.
The USB rechargeable Orp can provide 76dB of sound to alert cyclists and pedestrians that the rider is coming, but in traffic it can kick out 96dB that even cars will notice. It also offers twin 87 lumen LEDs that can be operated in three modes including slow and fast strobe or constant to shine the way. Video after the jump
There are bicycle horns and then there are serious bicycle horns! DYIer Chad Thoren – known to his friends (and apparently foes alike) as The Chadster – outfitted his bicycle with a dual trumpet horn from the locomotive! He connected the born to a tank filled with compressed air, which he says produces much louder results that you get by just honking up the horn to an air compressor.