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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

A Brief History of the MONOcycle, Humanity's Most Useless Vehicle

A Brief History of the MONOcycle, Humanity's Most Useless Vehicle
Motherboard
By Brian Merchant
Link: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-monocycle-lives-a-brief-history-of-humanitys-most-useless-vehicle

"This month, the RYNO, a one-wheeled electric motorcycle, is slated to start rolling off the assembly line. Why, one might ask, might human society need a one-wheeled electric motorcycle? Well, we don’t, but that hasn’t stopped us from churning out all kinds of vehicular experiments with dubious utility—today’s prime example being the Segway. But the all-time poster child for claptrap transportation might well be the monocycle, or the monowheel, in all of its myriad forms over the last century."



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