Self Balancing Unicycle Version 2.0
We wrote about the Focus Designs SBU (Self Balancing Unicycle) in 2008, over two years later and they now have SBU V2.0. The 2.0 version of the self balancing unicycle looks like a truly “ready for market" product. Yours for about $1500 here. Read on for full details.
Tank Or Skateboard… You Decide.
When I first watched the video of this tank/Skateboard (video after the break) I thought, what a great idea. But after watching I wondered why all of the engineering and design when you could just use a motocross motorcycle?! Not to mention you look like you are on a hopped up Segway, and you know […]
Electric Unicycle The EniCycle
At first glance the EniCycle looks like a rendering of a cartoon vehicle… maybe something that Wile E Coyote would use to chase the Road Runner. The EniCycle, however, is real and looks like fun. Details and video after the break.
WTF is a PUMA?!
For years I’ve used the Segway as a sort of a milestone of humanity’s technological accomplishment in building something wickedly stupid, unnecessary and overrated – a remarkable blend of misplaced technological acumen and social ineptitude – a middle finger to common sense and “cool” if you will. Yes I clearly got an itch to scratch […]
Self Balancing Unicycle
Focus designs have taken the general premise from the Segway (accelerometers and gyroscopes) to make a self-balancing unicycle (SBU). You control the SBU by leaning in the direction you want to go… the pedals are not actually used for pedaling. The SBU is not cheap… it will set you back $1,500 and will be available […]
Toyota Geeks It Up Segway Style – Winglet
As if Segway wasn’t lame enough, Toyota joined the lineup of Segway’s knockoffs with a gimp little entry called Winglet. Winglet sounds more like a Maxi Pad knockoff for tiny cooters but I digress. Since Sony scrapped most of its robotics division (yes kids they shot Aibo the dog), Toyota stepped in and picked up […]
Segway CTO Joins Apple Design Team As VP Of Product Design
Doug Field, a driving force at Segway, is calling it quits and heading over to Apple where he will be the VP of Product Design. Is Apple getting into wheeled gadgets… or is Doug trying on a new hat? Either way, umm I really don’t care.
Segway i2 Ferrari Edition – Still Lame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWI8WOw82qI Looks like the makers of the Segway scooter are trying to sex-up their product with their latest, the Segway PT i2 Ferrari limited edition. I can’t believe Ferrari let this happen. What makes it a Ferrari? Red paint A Ferrari backpack Autographed by Kimi Raikkonen (?) $12,000 price tag?! Oh yeah, and a Ferrari […]
Segway X2 Golf
I have always thought that riding on a Segway tended to look a bit goofy, but I actually think Segway may be onto something with the X2 Golf. Let’s face it, golfers already look a tad bit goofy, so riding on the Segway X2 Golf may actually be fitting… and fun. The X2 Golf goes […]