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Focus Design’s SBU self-balancing unicycle: because you didn’t look dumb enough on a Segway

By in Uncategorized on October 18th, 2008

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 Segway-style gyroscopes to power your lazy ass forwards and backwards. Not a new idea by any stretch, but Focus Design is actually crazy enough to

be working on bringing this thing to market. Focus hopes to do a limited run of ten SBUs next month, at $1,500 a month. Peep the video after break to see if you can handle the shame.

[Via Hack a Day]

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