Yamaha wearable motorcycle concept will likely remain just that

It's not often that you see devices huddled under the transportation and wearables categories, but you can certainly consider the above pictured contraption a proud member of each. Created by transportation design student Jake Loniak, the Yamaha Deus Ex Machina is an "electric, single passenger, vertically parking, wearable motorcycle, and the bike would theoretically be controlled via 36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators. We're also told that it would be able to accelerate from 0 to 60 in just 3 seconds, though the top speed would be capped at 75 miles-per-hour. Ah well, at least we know the wearable airbag is actually coming, right?

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[mdm-adph @ May 23rd 2008 11:31AM]

Gnarly -- it's like the wheelers from "Return to Oz".

[ddub @ May 23rd 2008 12:48PM]

I thought the same thing.

[StreetStealth @ May 23rd 2008 1:48PM]

How about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centurions_(TV_series)

Jake Rockwell, rugged land operations specialist!

[nikola @ May 23rd 2008 6:04PM]

So, none of you geeks bothered to ask how this thing was powered?

Anyone want to be the one strapped to a gas tank that goes 0 to 60 in 3 seconds. Just imagine if you get clipped..............................










BLAHK!

[Ayman @ May 23rd 2008 6:15PM]

@ StreetStealth

I was thinking the same thing

I loved the Centurions when i was a kid
i was just watching their an old clip of their show

P.s. this prototype has military use..... and Ironman

[skulldriveshaft @ May 23rd 2008 6:17PM]

How many of you seen one of these?

http://spyder.brp.com/en/

Warning: Full On Flash Based Site Overload for those surf only computers.

[deiphage @ May 29th 2008 1:54AM]

actually the "36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators" are so that when you lean forward thus controlling the acceleration of the bike one of the reasons why the two smaller wheels are in the front and the largest in the back offering the lowest wind resistance at the top speeds (leaning forward means accelerating or going faster) you don't need too much safety because if you just stand up you come to a stop some people didn't read it carefully and notice that it said that it PARKS vertically not drives vertically the really bad side to the design is that your neck would hurt you'd practically have to be looking up at about a 30 to 75 degree angle the entire time you were moving plus the capacitor probably becomes useless after only a few hundred charges and on top of that most people would crap themselves or vomit violently if they looked straight and see the ground that close to their nuts

[deiphage @ May 29th 2008 1:59AM]

whoops i mean when you lean forward you don't fall down

[Idlemind @ May 23rd 2008 11:32AM]

At first glance, I thought it was an R/C vehicle

[Elkin @ May 23rd 2008 11:32AM]

AWESOME, I want one..

[Flashpoint @ May 23rd 2008 11:34AM]

I don't think most people would look good in the spandex. I seen some asses that looked like damn wet pillows.

[Wwhat @ May 23rd 2008 12:37PM]

That's not a bad analogy, wet pillows.

[peshue @ May 23rd 2008 11:32AM]

Looks more like a tricycle to me.

[Elkin @ May 23rd 2008 11:33AM]

a tricycle that can do 75mph!!

[fennec @ May 23rd 2008 2:06PM]

The Aptera hybrid-y super-lightweight car is also classified as a motorcycle.

[Dorf @ May 23rd 2008 11:33AM]

0 to 60 in 3 seconds? Sweet Jebus I want one.

[Shinigami @ May 23rd 2008 12:02PM]

60 to 0 in 1 second. Warning! Incompatible with life!

[zfurie @ May 23rd 2008 11:35AM]

And when the wearer prepares to go into flight mode, the frame folds backward into a flying wing.

The jetpack and safety parachute is located in the back.

Mk II will add a Landwarrior combat frame.

Mk III will look like Ironman.

[onezro5 @ May 23rd 2008 11:38AM]

Does anyone remember Axel/Axle from the game Twisted Metal? LoL

[TavisJohn @ May 23rd 2008 11:42AM]

The iPhone can't do 0-60 in 3 seconds... Fanboy offtopic looser.

[TavisJohn @ May 23rd 2008 11:43AM]

That wa susposed to go to "mnogsd"... Why did it go here???

[The 3rd Hot Dog @ May 23rd 2008 11:44AM]

Do you remember that when Axel (Axle?) got damaged badly enough, one of his arms gets taken down to a stump?

[Keith MacDonald @ May 23rd 2008 12:21PM]

TavisJohn: because you fail at posting /oblig

Now for some funny: http://thecraptastics.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fail.jpg

[DG @ May 23rd 2008 11:38AM]

It will remain a "wearable motorcycle concept"? I should hope so -- that's what is it right now. I wouldn't expect it to become a banana, or an ironing board.

Sometimes you guys really suck at English.

[aramis109 @ May 23rd 2008 11:42AM]

No, it'll remain a CONCEPT, and not make it into production. If you're going to try and take the piss out, at least use your brain first.

[Wwhat @ May 23rd 2008 12:40PM]

Yap failure.

[Fozzie @ May 23rd 2008 2:35PM]

Exactly... just as you will remain a d1ck.

[Vic the One @ May 23rd 2008 11:39AM]

This is really cool looking imo, and probably no more dangerous to use than present-day motorcycles. I would definitely consider buying one, depending on what its fuel is and how intuitive its controls are. Assuming Yamaha doesn't include it, I will have to create a helmet with a virtual HUD so I can pretend I'm Iron Man while driving on the interstate. Yes, I am a huge geek... Deal with it

[Seth @ May 23rd 2008 11:50AM]

well... it would certainly make a much more interesting splatter design on the front bumper of vehicles than current motorcycles.

[d840 @ May 23rd 2008 4:09PM]

Unfortunately, this thing looks crazy topheavy compared to present-day motorcycles, and would therefore likely not be capable of the same turns present-day motorcycles are capable of in order to avoid a crash.

Also has anyone ever stuck their hand out a window at 65? Now imagine that same force, applied to the entire front of your body. And for propulsion, it will be using "36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators", so it seems like it would be doing some sort of roller-blade sort of movement..... to achieve 60mph....... in 3 seconds! (That's faster than a McLaren F1, Enzo Ferrari, Lamborghini Murcielago, etc... !!!!! There's no way in hell this thing would be wearable AND capable of that. He's just trying to "uber-hype" it (that's after "super over-hyped"!), and at least it seems he has achieved that.

Anyway, for all those reasons, I would much rather have a conventional bike. They're faster, safer, and you don't have to wear spandex to ride them!

[loosely_coupled @ May 24th 2008 6:42PM]

@db40

"36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators" - these are just for the structure. Not sure what they do though.

It's actually propelled by regular electric engines in the wheels and ultracapacitors

[AL3X 41 M4CH1N3 M4N @ May 23rd 2008 11:39AM]

It reminds me of those scary wheeler things from Return to Oz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0RFE3QGAU

[Vic the One @ May 23rd 2008 11:40AM]

If you're joking: LOL!

If you're not joking: Kill yourself... please....

[chickenator @ May 23rd 2008 11:53AM]

i see what u did there

[Fragmit @ May 23rd 2008 11:58AM]

http://thecraptastics.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fail.jpg

[Jherez @ May 23rd 2008 12:00PM]

0 to 60 in 3 seconds.....? Sweet mercy...

[Rob @ May 23rd 2008 12:04PM]

I thought Mr Garrison had this whole thing figured out already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_%28South_Park%29

[freediverdude @ May 23rd 2008 12:09PM]

It looks like if it accelerated that fast, it would just fall down backwards, unless it's front wheels drive.

[Dave @ May 23rd 2008 12:15PM]

The guy who thought this thing up is named "Bumsuk."

Dang.

I guess if life deals you a name like that, you go out and make completely, awesomely badass wearable motorcycle suits that go 0-60 in 3 seconds. I mean, what else CAN you do?

[anonymous @ May 24th 2008 2:15PM]

Bumsuk was the class instructor. Loniak is the designer.

It states that in the 2nd sentence.

[Richard @ May 23rd 2008 12:17PM]

Does it have any sort of built in bio-recycling system for when I shit myself?

[Ethan @ May 23rd 2008 12:30PM]

If I'm going to look like Doc Ock I want to be able to throw things.

[ugg.tryptophan @ May 23rd 2008 12:32PM]

technically, isnt this a trike?

[jbird @ May 23rd 2008 12:33PM]

um....junebug to the ballsack...need i say more?

[Brian @ May 23rd 2008 4:13PM]

I LOLed at that...

[Jason @ May 23rd 2008 12:35PM]

Dan, I was hoping for something more along the lines of the Veritech Cyclone...

[Jason @ May 23rd 2008 12:36PM]

er, that should have been Dang, not Dan... stupid no edit feature.

[Wwhat @ May 23rd 2008 12:41PM]

Dan or dang, neither is really the word 'damn' you were looking for.

[BlowURmindBowel @ May 23rd 2008 1:03PM]

LOL, now we have lexicon police, to go with our grammar nazis...

[CosterMonger @ May 23rd 2008 1:00PM]

cool, unlike segway.