unicycles
Vehicles
Honda U3-X: An Omnidirectional Segway-Style Unicycle
12:10PM Wilson Rothman | Jalopnik just posted this crazy Honda unicycle, the U3-X, with “omni traction drive”. It’s definitely the first personal mobility device that might help you fulfil your lifelong dream of re-enacting Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” video. Pics and details at [Jalopnik]
Vehicles
Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle to Make Clowns, Attention-Seekers Even Less Impressive
1:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | The Electric Self-Balancing Unicycle, or SBU, uses gyroscopes, accelerometers, and good clean electric power to make everyone’s favourite one-wheeled method of transport accessible to those who don’t want to bother with all that messy balancing and pedaling. Sure, unicycle purists will scoff, but now you can finally check “ride a unicycle” off your bucket list without wasting any time learning how to actually ride one. [Focus Designs] More »
Robots
Little Seiko Unicycling Robot Caught On Video, Unicycling Straight Into Your Heart
8:28PM Kit Eaton | Here’s video of Murata’s Little Seiko balancing robot up to its tricks on a unicycle. It’s a smart little thing: as well as balancing on that single wheel with nifty gyro and counterbalance robotic action, it can do collision avoidance. And boy, if it isn’t the cutest little robot you ever did see. [Bot Junkie] More »
Robots
‘Little Seiko’ Unicycling Robot Looks Like EVE Before She Learned to Hover
12:15AM John Herrman | To follow up on its bicycling Murata Boy robot, Murata has subtracted a wheel hired a stylist, thrown in a gyroscope and come up with the Seiko-chan or “Little Seiko” unicycling robot. The small robot will be able to move forward and backward on its single wheel, and is even capable of keeping its balance at a standstill. Intended as an educational tool for youngsters, the bot can be controlled with Bluetooth and has a small camera mounted on the front. More »
Vehicles
Future Victim of Everest to Ride Down Mountain on a Unicycle
3:45AM Sean Fallon | The words “extreme” and “unicycle” should never be uttered in the same breath—unless you are referring to British mountaineer Steve Colligan. Starting next week he will attempt to traverse a 965km stretch of the Himalayas from Lhasa in Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal, via Everest base camp riding on a mountain unicycle. More »
Design
Unicycle Transport Vehicle: Like a Segway, Only Lamer and Sweatier
8:30AM Sean Fallon | This unicycle transport vehicle by designer Regimantas Vegele is tailor made for an unique breed of individual–the kind of person that cares about looking good, but does not care about looking foolish. Essentially, the device would take the concept of an elliptical trainer and turn it into an actual moving vehicle. So travelling would involve pedaling and moving your arms–sort of a hybrid between cycling and cross country skiing. It’s not a bad concept from an exercise standpoint, but I have a hard time believing that there would be any sort of market for something like this. More »
Vehicles
Uno: a Unicycle-Motorbike-Segway Hybrid
2:50AM Gizmodo US Edition | Sometimes a bike is just a bike… there’s no photoshopping going on here, guys. This is Uno, of course, a segway/motorcycle mashup shown publicly for the first time at the recent Toronto National Motorbike show. Technically it has two wheels, but they’re right next to each other and it does balance on them under its own power. More »
