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A freshman student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA has invented the Uno, an electric-powered motorcycle. It has two wheels side by side instead of front and back. It is balanced by a gyroscope and computer and to maneuver it around, he simply leans forward, backward, or sideways.

The student, Ben Gulak, was inspired to do this after visiting China, with its crowded and smog-infested streets. He imagined the streets filled with battery-powered motorbikes so small that they could easily maneuver through the dense traffic and even be carried upstairs to an apartment.

When he returned to his home in Toronto he took over a machine shop that his grandfather had set up in the house and gathered a lot of conventional motorcycle parts. For a science fair, he began building a prototype.

At first his testing featured engines on fire and brake failures. But this project was a combination of his two big passions in life -- motorcycles and engineering. He persisted and got some help from a robotics engineer to figure out how to stabilize the bike.

His persistence paid off and Popular Science magazine made his bike one of the top ten inventions of 2008. They pictured it on their cover. Mr. Gulak was invited to go on The Tonight Show. Now he is working on international patents and talking to investors. And studying for his exams.

Perhaps such a bike will become popular although it would appear that you'll need strong arms to enjoy riding it for long, as the body is slanted well forward with the feet well back, contacting the pedals horizontally.

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