Back when I used to ride a normal bike, I had just the thing. It was an eyeshade, which basically covered my whole face because of my typical riding posture. I got it to keep the rain off my glasses but also found that, the plastic being amber, it was of great benefit with headlight glare.
Of course, life is too short to run into things headfirst. Now my feet are the farthest thing forward, and my perineum is much happier.
I already try it with my car key or the gate remote. Would be lovely if it actually worked. 
I’d love to see a night setting for a car’s outside mirrors, similar to the one the central mirror attached to the windshield has. I drive a normal-size sedan, and I am thoroughly sick of the jackasses in SUVS/pickups/minivans with ultra-bright headlights screwing up my vision when those lights hit my side mirrors. I’d be amazed if those damn things don’t cause a few night accidents because the driver in front of the super-beams can’t SEE forward of them.
A yardstick run under furniture works very well for this. I think my cat thinks the yardstick is a magic wand. Mom slides it under furniture and those lost catnip mousies magically appear.
That sounds perfect. I was wondering if one of those Covid face shields would work. 
By next summer the baby will be old enough to sit in a child seat, so maybe we’ll be investing in one of those little windscreens anyway.
You have a recumbent bike? How easy is it to keep an eye on traffic and see where you’re going in one of those things?
The last few companycars I drove had the automatic day/night sensor and they also changed the outside mirrors. One only did the driver’s side though.
Even better if the lock detects the fob in your pocket and automatically unlocks when you’re in range so that you can keep your hands free.
I want a button on my ear buds that will skip to the next song when I’m walking or jogging. I like to shuffle tunes and I don’t like to have to stop, pull my phone out of my pocket, wake up the phone and then hit next before returning the phone to my pocket, on the rare occasion that the next song up will totally ruin the mood. If they can do it for the volume, surely they can do this for me.
I have bluetooth earphones that have buttons for skipping forward, back and pause.
I have Bluetooth earbuds with a button that’ll do that. I can pause the music, skip forward or back, and control the volume. My smartwatch also has media controls.
Same here. Jabra Elite Active. You can even answer/hang up the phone with them.
Long overdue? Isn’t that pretty much standard with all ear buds except for the extremely cheap ones you can get for a couple bucks?
I have apple buds, they aren’t the worst, but obviously I need to upgrade!
I find it quite easy. On my upright, it seemed like I spent most of my riding time looking at the pavement (I used drop handlebars for a better wind profile). On the recumbent, my head is in a more natural vertical position, so I see everything. It does help to have mirrors to see back, but years of riding taught me the effectiveness of ears (never use earbuds while riding).
Even the inexpensive buds (Tozo, about $35) have control buttons for the music, but mine have touch sensors instead of physical buttons, so you don’t have to spend a fortune for quality.
I never wear earbuds when riding, that would be quite scary IMO. I was thinking it would be hard to get a good view from so low down, and hard for drivers to see you, too. But good point about not looking at the ground all the time.
Drivers can see a beer can lying in the road. A low-racer (not what I ride) with rider is still bigger than several kegs of beer. If a driver cannot see something that big, they need to be a passenger.
It’s not size that matters, a recumbent bike is bigger, if anything, than a standard bike. It’s height. If I’m driving my truck, I very much cannot see a beer can (nor a keg) in the bike lane on my right: it’s blocked by the passenger door. That’s why recumbent bikes often have a flag. You can see the height difference in this picture:
Being lower definitely makes you less visible when you are near other vehicles. Obviously it shouldn’t be a problem when the vehicle is approaching from behind, and properly adjusted mirrors obviously help, but that’s not the only way vehicles and bicycles interact and not all mirrors are properly adjusted.
Fact is, you cannot see a 6’ tall pennyfarthing, when it matters. You pass the bicycle and instantly erase it from your mind. Then you turn into the parking lot and, whoa, there is the bike. It is not being a bad driver, it is a normal affect of human perception that is almost impossible to avoid.
The stuff on the shoulders, in the bike lane, on the sidewalk, that is not traffic, so your mind filters it out. The safest place for a bicycle is the street, where it will be seen. Bike lanes should be eliminated, as they give a false sense of security.
Yup, the way we perceive things is not like taking a photo and scanning it for data. Our brains are constantly modeling to try to filter out irrelevant background from what’s important. We can inadvertently filter out a bike even when it’s in the same place as an approaching car would be. It’s not necessarily that drivers are inattentive idiots, it’s the way our brains can fool us sometimes. There’s that famous psychology video where people are given a task to do something like count the number of passes in a basketball game, and many people don’t notice that somebody comes prominently into the middle of the court wearing a gorilla suit in the middle of the sequence.
Bike lanes function exceptionally well in countries like the Netherlands, where almost all traffic participants respect them, the riders and their rights. They work worse, but they work somehow in countries like Germany where the car drivers still sometimes have a sense of superiority, but enough people are bikers AND car drivers to respect bike lanes. I’ve never driven a car nor a bike in the USA, but maybe they only just don’t work in a country of auto enthusiasts.