Move over Segway, here comes the i-swing…

“Sadly, this is a concept car only — meaning you can’t go out and buy one at your local Toyota dealer. Designed by Hideo Miwa from yes, Toyota, it’s named the i-swing and looks like a chair on wheels, or a jetpac. The designer believes that cars will evolve into more of a wearable design.

As you can see, it can travel on three or two wheels, and its body is made of polyurethane and covered in fabric to soften the impact if it bumps into people. Bumper cars, cool!”

Via: Popgadget

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As we all know the Roomba was designed to clean floors, but it can do much more. Tod Kurt has created a phone controlled Roomba.

“Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell phones has been a mess, especially for non-Windows users. Thankfully, Mobile Processing wraps up the ugly details, like Processing does for normal Java. It makes writing little programs for your phone pretty easy, and makes whipping up a program to control a Roomba possible.”

Via: Hackaday