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Comments on Audi Snook One-Wheel Concept Gyrocar Updated
Updated with RAH tumblebug picture from June, 1940 Astounding! If you're wondering how much fun it will be to drive, read what Piers Anthony and Robert Margroff wrote forty years earlier. (Read
the complete story)
| "Someone worked out the balance issues already. Ballbot see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5le0tQBrGJU " (Bob D 4/17/2008 4:02:30 PM) |
| "There's a monocycle in one of Harry Harrison's 'Stainless Steel Rat' books as well." (Fortigurn 4/17/2008 5:09:58 PM) |
| "Bob D - I do remember about Ballbot - I forgot to link to this story - Ballbot Balancing Upright Robot." (Bill Christensen 4/17/2008 8:00:06 PM) |
| "Fortigurn - I didn't know that one; however, I think that the first use of this idea that I remember is the tumblebug from Robert Heinlein's 1940 novel The Roads Must Roll. I'll add the picture from the cover of the 1940 Astounding to the main article." (Bill Christensen 4/17/2008 8:05:00 PM) |
| "There was a concept mono wheel cycle a few years back; have to be nuts to ride it; never got one.
To be clear, I don't mean the monowheel which can be bought and rode today, I mean a bike on top of a ball." (Icecycle 4/18/2008 1:03:16 PM) |
| "Icecycle - Maybe you're referring to the cool Embrio monocycle concept? I liked that one, too. That was one of the first SF in the News stories I wrote [insert emoticon for nostalgic drift down memory lane].
I probably should have added these links: - EMBRIO Embodies The Tumblebug - Eunicycle Single-Wheel Gyro-Stabilized Scooter - Segway Robotic Mobility Platform Looks Like A Tumblebug " (Bill Christensen 4/18/2008 2:14:58 PM) |
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