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Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer
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Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer

Garmin finally lets you yell at your bike computer. The Edge 1060 now has a microphone and a speaker, so you can bark commands at it instead of poking a sweaty touchscreen while dodging a pothole. That's the good news. The better news is it talks back, which means you might finally get turn-by-turn directions without taking your eyes off the road. Voice control has been sitting in our phones and smart speakers for years, so it's almost weird it took this long to show up on a bike computer. But here it is, and it makes immediate sense for anyone who's ever nearly swerved into a hedge trying to zoom in on a map.