Well, actually, I did think :-)
I "invented" this some while ago.
Didn't design it fully. Never even started to think about actually building
one, of course.
Which is, in this sort of endeavour, is (part of) what sorts the men from
the boys.
I had more in mind a "roadable" machine along the lines of a bikies trike
but with only two wheels.
I have a file where I keep my more notable weird ideas and it didn't even
get that far so I can't have thought to much of it.

I saw a very short clip on TV tonight and I am suitably impressed.
I am not underwhelmed by this - I think it has immense potential, but not
necessarily as currently envisaged.
Applied to "robots" it gives you something which approximates human mobility
in relatively confined spaces and would seem to be far more practical than
currently available consumer market  "walking" robots (eg Honda's) which
cheat rather badly in how they achieve bipedal locomotion.


>
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA011203What_IT_is.ht
> ml
>
> Anyone else underwhelmed ?
>
> This was the best bet many months ago in a 60 Minutes program,
> so perhaps the guessing-game hype never got to me

Note that the hype was from the camp followers and not from the master. He
played down the import of his invention while still indicating that it was
significant. I think he may be proven correct. How superior it is to a very
short wheelbase conventional design is to be seen.


        Russell McMahon

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