Cannondale Simon

Oi, there's nowt wrong with being called Simon.

Unless you are a mechanical object. At which point you lose all credibility and sound like you are mates with Thomas, Hector, Harry and The Fat Controller.

When do you go out riding then go for an XC ride maybe a bit of AM then do some DH all in one day which would require a fugly big screen and switch on your bars?

Sure a little discreet switch inside the top cap but it's not really warranting a screen to say you're using XC, AM or DH

Now if you could map your own settings via PC and the load them into the screen and you could select your favourite settings and switch them...now that would be cool

I'm pretty sure if it was as smart as they claim there wouldn't be any need to manually change the settings at all. There's no point in adding more complexity to a device unless it simplifies the user's interaction with the device or provides a massively better performance (which I doubt, mainly because suspension already works pretty well).

By fitting strain gauges/accelerometers to the top and bottom of the fork and a fork position and tilt sensor, with possibly a steering angle sensor too, it would be possible for the fork to determine whether it's being moved by the rider standing up and stomping or by bumps from the ground (With a bit of maths the superposition of these effects can be separated too) and what the fork is being used for and how it is being used. Once this distinction can be made, the fork will be able to respond correctly to input conditions from the point of view of lockout and damping levels.

Getting the fork to adjust its own preload, travel/length, sag and ramp rates responding to rider weight, technique and conditions (Different behaviour for a string of drops or under braking than for a rough twisty trail) as you use it would provide genuinely useful functionality that couldn't be easily copied by a fully mechanical system.

Changing the damping electronically to different settings depending on the rider's choice is likely to be no different to the likes of Marzocchi's TST as far as most users are concerned.

It's supposed to be doing slightly more than just changing settings via a little switch, but in essence I agree - it needs to do more than slightly more, ie something more which the user can actually notice. Still, early days