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Bicycles Are Sooo Last Year

Posted by: Tim Halbur

28 May 2009 - 10:00am

...now that the self-balancing unicycle is here, courtesy of Vancouver inventor Daniel Wood.

"Wood, a high school dropout and self-taught engineer, invented the electric, gyroscope-packed, one-wheeled cycle to help launch a new company in downtown Vancouver.

The invention is known as the SBU -- for Self-Balancing Unicycle -- and offers the promise of taking some of the circus-stunt nature of the unicycle to the masses.

The SBU delivers on one-half of the equation -- front to back balancing -- but the rider still must figure out the essential left and right balancing that's essential to turning and staying upright.

Nevertheless, Wood, a 30-year-old refugee from a Vancouver high-tech firm where he was laid off last year, has created a product that appears to have few parallels in the market."

Full Story: Vancouver engineer invents self-balancing unicycle
Source: Oregon Live, May 27, 2009
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