As a web developer, I often have ideas for sites and create them in my spare time. I have about 30 right now and of those, most of my focus goes to Pic.gs and GO.hn. This morning, I took a peek at Alexa and saw this. I’m not sure what happened yet, but I like it.
I wonder what SouthPark creators have to say about this. If you’ve seen the episode of Southpark where Mr. Garrison gets fed up with the airline industry and invents “IT”, then you should recognize how much the new Wheelsurf resembles IT.
Unlike Garrison’s IT, Wheelsurf doesn’t require any, um, insertion to operate, but with a price tag nearing the $7,000 mark, it might feel the same. This thing cruises along at up to 20 miles per hour and you keep it upright much like a motorcycle (with balance). Looking for a little more information, I tracked this article back to Slipperybrick:
Powered by a Honda GX31 4-stroke engine, the WheelSurf 2007 delivers 31 cc of horsepower and 7,000 RPMs, and surprisingly it only weighs 50 kilos. You operate it by sitting down on it like a bike, grabbing the handlebar and then accelerating/braking using the right handle. The outer wheel revolves around propelling you forward while keeping the center level with the horizon.
Leave it to China. The new IMOBILE Flying C1000 is a wrist watch that includes a GSM cell phone, a touchscreen PDA, Bluetooth support, 60MB of RAM, a video / audio player, a mini USB jack, and possibly a camera. The C1000 also appears to be both 2G- and 3G-ready, thus allowing you to browse large, image-heavy webpages on the tiniest screen ever made.
I haven’t found any pricing yet, but I’ll bet it won’t be cheap when we see them state-side.
This is another item for the insanely-cool-but-probably-mostly-useless file. This robotic face, made from a malleable, yet rigid material called Septom can shift to match any facial structure. Watch the video below to see it morph from one face into another. Creepy.
SciFi says:
Created by researchers at Tokyo University, the WD-2 has “17 facial points, for a total of 56 degrees of freedom.”
