# Honda U3-X
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [April 12, 2010, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226 "2010-04-12T10:39:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2010, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/1 "2010-04-12T10:39:30Z")
This thing is wild, lol. Humans are getting super lazy, aren’t we? It would probably be good for old people to get around on though.
_Once you’re used to the sensations, you can zip forwards, backwards, sideways, or diagonally. The idea is to recreate the natural trajectories of a human moving through a crowd while enabling you to rapidly move sideways or diagonally to avoid sudden obstacles. Want to turn? Just dab your foot to twirl around the wheel’s axis. The whole thing feels freakishly natural, as if you were born with an omnidirectional wheel attached to your butt._
It’s that naturalness that makes the U3-X unique. Unlike the Segway, there’s virtually no learning curve for beyond remembering to relax and not overdo it. And unlike Dean Kamen’s two-wheeled folly, the U3-X allows you to move naturally and easily, traveling though and interacting with your environment in a fluid, organic way.
2 Babes try it out:
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/2 "2010-04-12T10:52:37Z")
That blond girl is fabulous looking.
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### Author:  [@Ciaran](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ciaran)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/3 "2010-04-16T10:23:50Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> That blond girl is fabulous looking.
+1
would tap
also, that things is pretty neat
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/4 "2010-04-16T10:31:48Z")
Attach a little projector screen to them and sell them at Buy-n-Large
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### Author:  [@a\_ahmed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/a_ahmed)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/5 "2010-04-16T10:46:03Z")
^LMAO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT OMG
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### Author:  [@MP\_B240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MP_B240)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/6 "2010-04-16T11:20:45Z")
this is the worst / most lazy / dumb idea ever. remember when the segway first came out, and everyone thought it was going to be the next big thing? yeah. the only difference is at least you were standing up on that, this is next level lazy.
waste of time and research imo
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### Author:  [@zudeck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zudeck)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/7 "2010-04-16T11:52:24Z")
> [@MP/B240](#):
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> this is the worst / most lazy / dumb idea ever. remember when the segway first came out, and everyone thought it was going to be the next big thing? yeah. the only difference is at least you were standing up on that, this is next level lazy.
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> waste of time and research imo
What do you have against progress and innovation ? Unless you are Amish !!
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/8 "2010-04-16T11:54:03Z")
i want to innovate that girl’s face.
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### Author:  [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/9 "2010-04-16T12:02:46Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> i want to innovate that girl’s face.
LoL Agreed
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### Author:  [@MP\_B240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MP_B240)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/10 "2010-04-16T12:21:01Z")
it’s progress and innovation in the wrong direction
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/11 "2010-04-16T12:31:31Z")
> [@MP/B240](#):
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> it’s progress and innovation in the wrong direction
I dunno, there are positives. From Jalopnik:
_Honda is always trying to find its way into the future. Right now, the future for Japan is old people. Lots of them._
_By 2020, more than 25 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65. Those old fogeys are going to have to work until a later age and their kids won’t take care of them even when they’re retired. That means they need ways to extend their lives beyond broken hips and atrophied muscles. Devices like the U3-X and Honda’s Walking Assist Devices are exploring new ways to extend the mobility of the elderly and people suffering from physical handicaps._ [LINK](http://jalopnik.com/5510893/riding-hondas-cybernetic-unicycle-in-times-square)
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/12 "2010-04-16T12:33:10Z")
> [@MP/B240](#):
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> it’s progress and innovation in the wrong direction
how can you say that a self balancing device is progress in the wrong direction… wtf
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### Author:  [@Anonymity](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Anonymity)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/13 "2010-04-16T12:33:36Z")
but can it do HEATERZZZZZZZ…?
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### Author:  [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/14 "2010-04-16T12:39:15Z")
> [@Anonymity](#):
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> but can it do HEATERZZZZZZZ…?
This.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/15 "2010-04-16T12:59:31Z")
That omni-taction system has very practical industrial applications. This product is a great vehicle to develop interest in the system commercially and internationally… If you just developed specific industrial tools with the technology it wouldnt create the same viral hype…
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### Author:  [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/16 "2010-04-16T13:02:08Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> how can you say that a self balancing device is progress in the wrong direction… wtf
True… it’s not really progress in ANY direction.
I think it’s cool in terms of the control scheme required to maintain balance. I also don’t think old people could handle it.
It’s too small. Old people are a clumsy bunch.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/17 "2010-04-17T09:48:49Z")
this guy started with the segway, good thing too 🙂
> **[The emotion behind invention](https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_the_emotion_behind_invention)**
>
> Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable...
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### Author:  [@ricers\_r\_us](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ricers_r_us)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/18 "2010-04-17T10:02:13Z")
3:03 in the first vid… “both hands are free so carrying packages while moving is simple.”
same thing is possible while walking (obvioulsy they said that cuz u need hands with the segway but come on)
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### Author:  [@Feint](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Feint)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/19 "2010-04-17T13:14:23Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> I dunno, there are positives. From Jalopnik:
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> _Honda is always trying to find its way into the future. Right now, the future for Japan is old people. Lots of them._
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> _By 2020, more than 25 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65. Those old fogeys are going to have to work until a later age and their kids won’t take care of them even when they’re retired. That means they need ways to extend their lives beyond broken hips and atrophied muscles. Devices like the U3-X and Honda’s Walking Assist Devices are exploring new ways to extend the mobility of the elderly and people suffering from physical handicaps._ [LINK](http://jalopnik.com/5510893/riding-hondas-cybernetic-unicycle-in-times-square)
Japan: finding any fucking excuse to avoid immigration, even when they saw this situation pre-2000, nearly 20 years ago.
Instead of opening the gates a little more, Japan has been spending 20 years on this kind of shit as their solution to a seemingly worse situation every year. Expect the Honda Robo-Gaijin by 2020, the ultimate replacement for labour shortages, with VTEC inside to increase productivity. And the female version will probably give blowjobs too.
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### Author:  [@ricers\_r\_us](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ricers_r_us)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/honda-u3-x/153226/20 "2010-04-17T13:33:39Z")
lmao^^^
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