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Transformer-Style Scooter Lets You Ride Your Briefcase To Work
cartechboy writes "If you're going to sell a brief case for $6,000, there better be a pony inside — or at least an electric scooter. Who wouldn't want to transform their boring old briefcase into an electric scooter and zip off to (or away from) work? The Commute-Case, as it's known, is essentially a briefcase you can ride to work. While in briefcase mode, if you extend sections of the front and back, wheels, handlebars and a step for your feet pop out. In 3 to 5 seconds, your briefcase is now an electric scooter that can go up to 25 miles on a single charge and weighs 27 pounds. Don't count on actually carrying stuff to work with this briefcase (there's a scooter inside)."
Really... it's 2014. A Briefcase?!
I want a flying car that folds into a briefcase like George Jetson.
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Either the built-in storage compartment doesn't count or Soulskill didn't even bother to watch the video.
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You're supposed to ride this thing standing up, sitting on the handle or sitting at the back of the briefcase?
At least it makes charging a breeze.
Boss: Hey, why is your briefcase plugged into the wall?
You: My work laptop is inside it and I don't want people to steal it, I'm protecting the company property, sir!
Boss: Carry on, then!
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Business professionals such as attorneys and executives are the only people still using briefcases, middle management and your average run of the mill desk jockey might buy one of these as a toy, but not at this price point. You'd have to get it down to the sub-$500 level to hit that target market. This thing is defective by an order of magnitude on many levels.
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You talking about the Honda Motocompo?
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I don't get it, it looks like a horrible scooter, a horrible briefcase, and a horrible travel case. It probably weighs a ton to carry, and it costs $6,000?
This looks like an idea better left in a cartoon. It's not compatible with the real world.
and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard.
A Scooter would be "GoBot-style". *scoots away*
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You're not. Credited in the titles as "55MPH Briefcase", but I don't think Jittlov ever got it going that fast.
i could buy a good motorcycle
there is no way i would spend 6 grand on a electric minibike that folds in to a briefcase
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I'm still waiting for someone to invent a magic bag of holding!
If I remember correctly, Gobots was the one with kind of scooter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
If they have a product, they should use actual images of those. Their homepage has fake pictures, done poorly. The man boarding a train? Probably not their market, and his reflection in the train clearly shows no "transformer" scooter. The lady in the airport? Looks like an out-of-place runway model, with unnaturally straight features. Man by the bus, he also has some unnatural characteristics. I understand using props for marketing, or prototypes. To do "press releases " with poor photos is bad form. Then again, I'm not sure who will use this product either, and if it exists beyond a designer's computer.
...and you'd still have to carry your old briefcase!!
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Retailer: http://greenenergymotors.com/
Price $6k (but atm its 50% off)
Max speed is 12Mph (based on 1 mile per 5 minute claim) so 19.31kmph (fast run)
All the images are Cgi/photoshopped I cannot see 1 pic of the actual scooter the group that also apprently collabrated with them on the design/build http://livingstonproducts.com/ has no images of the product either.
Features include:
Power and mounting for GPS type system or phone (And not enough power to power the device)
Cup holder (where)
Electronic Horn (but no button in the concept art)
Brakes (but no breaking mechanisms on the wheels or cables)
oh and it weighs 10.5 Kg's without the contents.
I don't mean this to be a Debbie Downer, but...This is not a briefcase, it's just made to look like one. The storage space on here would barely hold a phone and a snack, there is no space for a legal pad or laptop. So if you are attorney you are going to either be lugging 2 briefcases (and this one is 27lbs unloaded) or more likely a backpack and this because at 27lbs it's unwieldy at best.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Before you correct, remember that there is a difference between Legal and Letter and they show a spiral notebook (letter) in the cargo space.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Oh wow, that's cool. Never knew that existed. The sucessor to that today seems to be a 1500 watt electric scooter, such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Similiar weight (~90lb), similiar top speed (30-35+mph).
As to the briefcase scooter, just too expensive.
It's nice to know that Segway guys can finally point to something that would instantly make someone 12 times geekier-looking than a Segway ever could.
The discouraging thing is the one guy in the entire world who owns one of these contraptions is taking the train!!!
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I was thinking this would make a great tool for an lawyer who might want to make a quick getaway. Too bad Linoel Hutz is no longer with us.
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I want a flying car that folds into a briefcase like George Jetson.
Me, too.
Other "prior art" occurs in the 1988 feature movie version of Jitlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time.
See 1:05:25 throug 1:11:10
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Credited in the titles as "55MPH Briefcase", but I don't think Jittlov ever got it going that fast.
Didn't he call it "killer" or something like it, because it was so difficult to control, especially on that down-the-hill run?
(I thought of it, too, buit posted following up something early in the discussion before seeing the WoSaT posting.)
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you know the only place this kind of scooter is good for is INSIDE A FUCKING BUILDING. there it's a fun toy.
on road this is as useful as a kickscooter. which costs 40 bucks. you can go just as fast.
and for 6000 bucks you can buy a 150cm^3 engined 60kph scooter so wtf..
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It has been done before. I think it was in the 90's I saw a briefcase scooter/gocart thing.
I remember the demo being a blue plastic briefcase with a two stroke motor.
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Did anyone think it looks like this? Going to work with an Osborne Personal Business Computer.
Now too you can swing a bulky and extremely heavy "briefcase" around like it's 1981, pretending it's lightweight or you're so manly you can handle it like it's feathers inside.
I don't know how it feels like, might be awesome but I would risk breaking windows or tripping on the ground in bad ways.
Tomorrows World a UK science show demoed a fold up suitcase car decades ago
http://www.roadraceengineering...
better link to single page of images and videos of the Mazda Suitcase Car
I like microcars
Cool, but I'd rather see more companies just issue workers a cell phone and laptop, so they can telecommute from home.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
In my country using a car is cheaper than taking the train, unless you're talking about short commute trips only.
Even more so with websites where you can meet and share a car for one particular travel.
I don't mean this to be a Debbie Downer, but...This is not a briefcase, it's just made to look like one.
It's a folding bike. So it would make more sense to compare it with other folding bikes. Both pedal and electric...
That thing weighs in at 27 lbs. That's a lot to carry around with one hand for us older folks who can afford a $6000 toy.
As a point of reference, I recently bought a real scooter for $1400 that goes 35 mph, has a ton of storage, and doesn't look like a death wagon. I commute to work on it. It gets about 125 mpg.
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