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Honda Shows Off ‘Mobility’ Device

ORG XMIT: XKAN103 A Honda employee demonstrates Honda's new "personal mobility" device at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Honda's new "personal mobility" device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around in it _ sideways as well as forward and back _ is lean your weight into the direction you want to go. The U3-X _ available for a test-run for reporters in Tokyo Thursday _ was designed to take up the same amount of space as a human being to be safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians, according to Honda Motor Co.  (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (Shizuo Kambayashi / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: XKAN103 A Honda employee demonstrates Honda's new "personal mobility" device at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. Honda's new "personal mobility" device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around in it _ sideways as well as forward and back _ is lean your weight into the direction you want to go. The U3-X _ available for a test-run for reporters in Tokyo Thursday _ was designed to take up the same amount of space as a human being to be safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians, according to Honda Motor Co. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (Shizuo Kambayashi / The Spokesman-Review)

A Honda employee demonstrates Honda's new "personal mobility" device at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, earlier today. Honda's new "personal mobility" device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around in it _ sideways as well as forward and back _ is lean your weight into the direction you want to go. The U3-X was designed to take up the same amount of space as a human being to be safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians, according to Honda Motor Co. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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