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yikebike: the sitting man’s segway

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The YikeBike is a new electric transport vehicle coming from New Zealand. The compact personal transporter features an innovative design that can speed you along through city streets and country roads without ever requiring you to stand up.

The sit-down electric YikeBike tops out at 20km/hr (appx. 12 MPH). An electric chainless drive powers the…

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October 28th, 2009 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys future tech strange + wonderful technology

unicycle robot by murata has much better balance than me

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This jolly little robot gets around not by walking or crawling, but by rolling along on a single unicycle wheel.

Murata’s Seiko-chan (Murata Girl) self-balancing unicycle robot first came onto the scene back in 2008, but has recently been upgraded so it can tool along 3 times faster than the original. An ultrasonic sensor and…

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September 26th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: robots strange + wonderful technology

monkeylectric monkey lights make bike wheels fly through the night in a splash of color

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Here’s a great way to pimp out your bicycle without having to give it a metallic banana seat or stuffing those sparkly pom-pom things into your handlebars.

MonkeyLectric’s Monkey Lights snap onto the spokes of your bicycle and provide an amazing, colorful light show as you pedal through the streets at night.

You’ll have no…

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February 17th, 2009 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets just plain fun timepieces

freewheeler speaker looks like a tire, priced like a car

Viteo Freewheeler Outdoor Wireless Speaker

Nope, this isn’t some crazy whitewall tire for your car. It’s actually a high-end wireless outdoor speaker which can be rolled around anywhere you want.

Designed by Ron Arad and Frances Pellisari for Austria’s Viteo, the Freewheeler produces high quality stereo sound indoors or out. The speaker measures in at about 22.8″ tall x 9.8″…

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August 8th, 2008 comments (8) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design home entertainment strange + wonderful

orbitwheels turn rollerblades on their side

orbitwheels image via core77.com

In the beginning, there was the roller skate, then came the skate board and later the Rollerblade. So what’s the next conveyance that we’ll be strapping to our feet to roll around the street?

Orbitwheels move sort of like inline skates, but a wheel rotates around your feet, instead of under them. The large donut-shaped…

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July 27th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets just plain fun

lip mystic analog watch: watching the wheels go ’round

LIP Mystic Analog Dial Watch

When I first looked at this watch, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of numbers displayed on the face at once. But once I took a second to get my bearings, I actually thought it was pretty cool.

The Lip Mystic displays time using three concentric circular discs, the outermost one containing hours, the…

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January 11th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design retro timepieces

photon skateboards get undercarriage lighting

Photon Light Boards LED Skateboards

The latest in skateboard tech, these Photon Light Boards let you hit the streets after dark thanks to their brilliant built-in illumination.

Whether you’re just a hot shot and want to show off your moves, or you’re sick of taking a face plant on the curb when skating in the dark, the LED skateboards are…

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January 10th, 2008 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets just plain fun

seiko discus watch: let the spinning wheels spin

seiko moving image discus watch

This gorgeous new watch from Seiko Japan uses a series of spinning aluminum discs to display the current time.

Unlike some of the more cryptic modern watches coming out of Japan these days, the Seiko Discus is actually quite easy to read. A set of three numbered discs continuously rotate to display hours, minutes and…

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December 30th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

porsche wheel casemod does rock, won’t roll

Porsche Wheel Case Mod

This automotive-inspired casemod embeds a complete high-end PC built inside an alloy wheel from an SUV.

The liquid cooled SLI-Machine Wheel PC is loaded into an 18-inch wheel from a Porsche Cayenne, then wrapped up in a Bridgestone Dueler H/P radial tire to round things out.

An intense green neon backlighting system gives the computer…

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December 18th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing hacks + mods

bike wheels reveal hidden messages

Lampex Lex LED Bike Module

Here’s a cool gadget that lets you send messages using the wheels of your bicycle. By using an optical illusion called persistence of vision, your words are revealed as you pedal your bike.

The Lampex Lex module screws onto the spokes of your bicycle, and produces rapidly flashing sequences of LEDs to display your messages.…

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October 1st, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets

roller-walker: the real rollerskating robot

Roller-Walker Robot

A while back I had a very popular post about Plen, a little bipedal humanoid robot who happened to be able to rollerskate. While that was all for show, this robot actually skates around as one of its primary methods of locomotion.

Developed by Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab, the Roller-Walker robot walks like an insect when…

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September 2nd, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: robots strange + wonderful

xbox 360 racing wheel: new model coming?

Xbox Wireless Racing Wheel WRW01

I was digging through the FCC archives this weekend and came across something interesting. It looks like the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is getting some sort of an update.

A recent filing by Microsoft reveals a new model number “WRW02″ for the racing controller (the original version was model number “WRW01.”) The latest controller…

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July 29th, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

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