The Solowheel is nonetheless an additional take upon electric-powered personal transport. It is also only about a simplest possible design you could presumably imagine: the circle and nothing more.

The circle contains a 1,000 watt electric motor as well as gyroscopic controls, making it the kind of minimalist Segway. To drive it, you put it upon a road (it has a carrying handle up-top), flip down a foot platforms as well as step on. Lean forwards to go, as well as lean behind to delayed down. Turning is finished by leaning from side to side: As there is only a single wheel, no steering mechanism is indispensable.

It certainly looks similar to fun, right up to the inevitable face-plant which will occur as shortly as you try to bump up a too-high curbstone.

The Solowheel, that is not nonetheless for sale, is certainly small as well as rather moveable, though suffers a same disadvantage as any electric mode of ride. It is heavy, during 20 pounds, and while it folds up small, it’s not much not as big than the fully-collapsed Brompton, which weighs only about the same, doesn’t need recharging, as well as won’t send you face-first into the street.

Solowheel product page [Inventist around Core77]