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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.
And I want Megan Fox on a solid gold bed, but that's not in the cards now, is it?
Either the built-in storage compartment doesn't count or Soulskill didn't even bother to watch the video.
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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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This looks like an idea better left in a cartoon. It's not compatible with the real world.
A scooter that comes out of a luggable case is a great idea. But if it has to cost this much then it's a non-starter.
Maybe in a hundred years we'll have the battery and materials technology to do it for real. Or twenty, who can say any more.
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I'm still waiting for someone to invent a magic bag of holding!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.