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Finally, A Personal Transportation Device That Looks Dorkier Than A Segway

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Behold the personal transport of the future! It looks like a boombox, but Honda’s U3-X is a unicycle-like personal mobility device, that you can steer by leaning in the direction you want to go. It’s small, unobtrusive, and sexy!

Reporters got a test drive of the U3-X today in Tokyo. According to Associated Press:

Honda’s new “personal mobility” device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around in it — sideways as well as forward and back — is lean your weight into the direction you want to go. The U3-X … was designed to take up the same amount of space as a human being to be safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians, according to Honda Motor Co.

Photo by AP/Shizuo Kambayashi

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