The Wearable Motorbike

Well, just when you think you have seen it all, along comes the ‘wearable’ motorbike. This unique futuristic concept was created by a transportation design student called Jake Loniak who attempted to design a solution to the “way people live their lives”. The model is called the Yamaha Deus Ex Machina (God Out of a Machine) which essentially stands for “electric, single passenger, vertical parking, and wearable motorcycle”. In theory in would be controlled via 36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators.

“The Deus, powered by Doped Nano Phosphate batteries and ultra-capacitors, has an in-wheel motor that could supply ample torque to deliver a driving acceleration of 60 mph in 3 seconds. Recharge time is 15 minutes with a cycle time of 60 minutes, top speed, limited for now, at 75 mph.” (Green Car Design)

No safety issues have been published about it yet although the fact it has to be capped at 75 suggests that it can perform at much faster speeds. However, the idea of travelling at that speed in a vertical, upright position would not be for the faint hearted.

Sources: Green Car Design, Engadget