Toyota's i-Real: wrap yourself in a killer whale
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Oct 24th 2007 3:49AM
posted Oct 24th 2007 3:49AM
Update: Ah ha! We figured it out. It's the Toyota i-REAL concept. Video added after the break -- this baby cooks!
Wow! The only thing missing are antigravity levitator modules.
..and of course the missile pods on one sides and a laser turret cluster on the other....
(just preparing for the robot invasion y'know)
This is Toyota's i-Real concept. Their personal mobility vehicle ala Segway. You reported about it a couple weeks ago. I think it has a better chance than Segway. It's classy and you get to sit. I see these being used in the future inside cities instead of bicycles. Just a add briefcase slot on the side and a spiffy detachable trailer in the back for my grocery shopping. This would a whole lot better than that bicycle exchange thing they have over in Europe.
More pics on Autoblog
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/10/10/tokyo-2007-preview-personal-mobility-from-toyota-i-real-concep/
doesn't come with a seat belt!!
any iPod dock?
A high-end wheelchair?
Pleeease don't call this a wheelchair. This baby flows like you were on roller skates. You should see the WHEELIES it makes. I agree with Rajiv this thing needs a seat belt coz racing these babies on an obstacle course would be totally wicked.
And after that I definitely wouldn't mind dressing up and pulling up to club in one of these. Tell me the chicks won't be loving it. Coz the Asian chicks on the video below seem to enjoy riding the I-Real.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/10/12/videos-of-concept-chair-cars-iswing-and-i-real-and-more-pivo/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkb3D-eow5I
Professor X, anyone?
good point, but the first thing that came to mind was Mojo. Hmmm
So this is where the whales went...
That guy is getting paid to sit in a chair. Incredible.
Also, MAN THE HARPOONS.
Looks a bit like Davros from Doctor Who.
EXTERMINATE!
They should make an Office Space II and give the lazy oh-so-annoying boss one of these babies!
However awesome this is I am saddened that a company like Toyota is spending their time and money coming up with ways to make us even lazier.
plural of Orca is Orcas, not Orca's. The apostrophe means something is owned by the Orca, as in, "he's sitting in the Orca's chair". Why's such a little punctuation mark matter? Well, what's it matter if you have a character wrong when you're coding?
Well, if you're going to be a dick about it...
The first letter of your post should be capitalized. Also, your first sentence was a fragment.
Don't be a prick about these things. Especially if you are going to make the same mistakes. It's really not that big of a deal.
Effing grammar cops!
Looks good - I liked it when it first came out in November of 1966...
...good 'ole Chris Pike was riding around in one in "The Menagerie"...
THATS SO ANNOYING... .no not the incorrect grammer the corrections of grammers in a f*cking comment on a gadget blog. WHO THE HELL CARES are you really that slow that you couldn't process what he meant because of an apostrophe just for spite screw apostrophes
Damn right.
If you're going to complain about "grammar", at least spell it correctly.
too bad you just pointed out what i was speaking of who gives a crap if a comment on a blog is spelled exactly correct or grammaticly correct, you might as well complain everyone types lol since that's not even a word.
Not to mention spelling and punctuations on internet comments and forums should not be critiqued considering many of the commentors are NOT ENGLISH SPEAKING and others are just jotting down thoughts not writing a college thesis.
If i write grammer or grammar you understand what i mean last i checked because you corrected it mr english teacher. the same goes for commas and apostrophes. Unless you were on the little bus in school i doubt you actually have an issue reading.
And i was not complaining about GRAMMAR anyway, i was complaining about people like you that come onto a technology blog to comment and instead of talking about the product or gadget you talk about f*cking grammatical errors in peoples comments.
Maybe it's a dick thing to do for someone to correct your grammar, but whatever happened to spelling things correctly and using proper punctuation and sentence structure? People will take you (and your comments) more seriously if you can do these simple things.
That looks like too much fun. Way. Too much fun.
Hey, don't discount this as a design which could/would be used by some current wheelchair users. I, for one would love to have a cool chair like that. The current wheelchair manufactures don't know how to think outside of the box, we could really use some creative thinking about wheelchair design.
Killer Whale??? That looks nothing like Rosie O'Donell!
But seriously, like everyone on here, this makes me think of the porn possibilities. Hmmm... just imagine, a ron jeremy seat, complete with fuzzy chest hair seat warmer!
oh, and @Chris - STFU, go home.