Tag: UNICYCLE

We're just going to quote Focus Designs' bit of ad copy for its new self-balancing, electric unicycle: "The new SBU V2.0 is much easier to learn and guaranteed to be an instant crowd-pleaser." An instant crowd-pleaser, eh? Man, we must be really out of the loop when it comes to personal electric transport. We're being serious, because this is version 2.0 of the electric unicycle -- meaning ...

Do you remember the little Murata robots, the adorable droids that ride bicycles and unicycles? Well, Seiko has been updated yet again; she could previously go back and forth on a narrow beam with her lone wheel, but now she can navigate curves. Click past the break, and see a video of her previous incarnation at last year's CEATEC, the Tokyo electronics show where the new Seiko will demo next ...

We've previously covered no less than four different electric, self-balancing unicycles that are supposed to represent the future of individual transportation (and the reason for the persistence of our obesity problem). A new entry in the field, from Ryno Motors, looks less like the sort of thing a clown might ride and more like someone sliced a Kawasaki Ninja in half. With a maximum range of 30 ...

Imagine our surprise when we saw, early this morning, that Engadget had posted evidence of this extreme transportational weirdness. Just when we thought that the world at large had come to some sort of consensus -- a peace accord, if you will -- and decided, once and for all, that the Segway was the most ridiculous, least useful, and dorkiest transportive innovation since the unicycle, Honda had ...

The world of personal transportation, with few exceptions, has littered the earth with embarrassing paraphernalia. In-line skates, pogo sticks, the recumbent bike -- all disasters to personal style. Mix in electricity and you get the Segway, or alternatively, Focus Design's SBU electric self-balancing unicycle. The SBU can be steered by leaning left to right (like a regular unicycle) and uses ...

Riding a bicycle isn't exactly easy, especially if you're made of circuitry, wires, and a gyroscope. That was Murata Seisaku-kun's one trick, and now he's sadly obsolete. Meet Seiko, a 20-inch tall, 11 pound unicycle riding robot. Like her, uh, "cousin" Keisaku-kun, Seiko relies on a chest-mounted gyro to stay upright and uses Bluetooth to communicate with a PC that gives instructions. (Yes, she's ...

Leave it to a couple of Canadian teenagers to take the Segway concept and improve upon it. Two Ontario teens have created the Tango, an odd unicycle-like vehicle that runs on a souped-up electric wheelchair engine. The vehicle resembles a motorcycle folded in half. Two wheels sit side by side, creating a single (but wide) surface that contacts the ground. The included accelerometer picks up the ...