Wearable motorcyle for Yamaha
The wags over on Slashdot are all in titter about this Yamaha-branded concept motorcycle.
Art Center College of Design shows Yamaha-branded wearable motorcycle concept
HellForLeather.com May 22, 2008… Design student Jake Loniak decided the idea of a machine as an extension of the body should be taken literally… Loniak’s concept is an electric vertically parking motorcycle controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators...more...
Ok, ok, this exo-skeleton does seems to stretch the concept/rationality of “wearable”… but hot-damn it’s electric powered and goes 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds and tops out at 75 mph! (0 to 97 km/h in 3 seconds, top-ends at 120 km/h!) 
Powered by ultra-capacitors and batteries the in-wheel motor drives this Inspector Gadget contraption.
I could see myself using it to weave through Tokyo gridlock and avoiding the recent infamous 30,000 yen ($300 USD) tickets for parking on the street or sidewalks since there are almost no parking lots that have motorcycle parking places.
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