Approaching "Wall-E" with Honda's Uni-Cub personal mobility device

May 17, 2012, 10:48 am by Scientific American: Health

Honda’s new mobility gadget has me worried.Yesterday Honda announced a new invention called the Uni-Cub . It s a cute, Wall-E inspired “personal mobility device” engineered to get people from here to there all without walking. Great! Convenience! It s a smaller Segway that one pops a squat on (not in that sense, at least not yet) and can be zipped around the office or down the street. With the Segway, one had to gasp! stand up while zipping around town looking silly. Not anymore. Now we ll be able to cruise around large indoor malls, Costcos, and other warehouse shopping experiences from the comfort of our bums (while still looking silly). [More]

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