Just when it looked as though there might never be a solution to the problem of walking, Honda today unveiled the U3-X personal mobility device, a sci-fi-looking, unicycle-ish mobile stool that moves ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FIRST there was the Sinclair C5, which struggled to find its market. Next came a generation of personal mobility vehicles such as the ...

Honda Motor Co has unveiled an electric battery-powered personal transporter, a unicycle shaped like the number eight that riders steer by leaning in the direction they want to travel. The U3-X, which ...

Honda Motor Co employee demonstrates the company's prototype of new personal mobility device "U3-X" in Tokyo Credit: Photo: REUTERS The sleek and silver U3-X has internal balance control, meaning that ...

Jalopnik just posted this crazy Honda unicycle, the U3-X, with “omni traction drive.” It’s definitely the first personal mobility device that might help you fulfill your lifelong dream of re-enacting ...

Japanese engineers thought that allowing Matt Lauer to ride the Honda U3-X on the Today Show this morning was "too risky," but I sweet-talked them into letting me roll through Times Square on it.

Honda is beginning public demonstrations of its Uni-Cub personal mobility device. The self-balancing “unicycle” uses Honda’s Omni Traction Drive System to move in 360 degrees. Honda is beginning ...

It may look a little precarious and uncomfortable to ride, but Honda believe their new 'personal mobility' device could one day be zipping up and down our streets. The vehicle looks like a very modern ...

As my cohorts enter their second childhood, more and more of them are finding it difficult to get around strictly on their own two feet. Wheelchairs and scooters are a poor substitute -- expensive, ...