Solowheel: electric single person transportation

The unicycle goes high tech, with gyro-stabizers to make it easy to balance and learn to use.  Solowheel comes with a training strap to allow you to keep the solowheel from falling and getting scratched should you step off abruptly, but within a half hour you should be able to to ditch the strap and roll with confidence.   Lean forward to go up to ten miles an hour, or lean back to stop.  One of the advantages of the single wheel design is that at 26 lbs, and with a carrying handle and foot pads that flip up for storage, it easily becomes quite portable and easy to store or carry onto alternate forms of transportation. It uses a standard bike tire, that a consumer could theoretically change themselves if need be. A two hour electric charge will allow for 15-20 miles of travel.  Green, compact, portable and not using gas, Solowheel has a lot going for it as a peoplemover.  

Solowheel was released worldwide in October with a price tag of $1800.  This seemingly puts it at the high end of the recreational price range, but it may still have some applications as an alternate secondary non-recreational transportation for some. It's one of a new generation of personal transportation devices that, like bicycles, may have dual applications as both recreational sports and practical transportation usage.

One of the more exotic offerings is a the GEN H-4; a personal one man ultra-light helicopter (also the record holder for the world's smallest) that is easy to fly and doesn't require a pilots license in the United States.