Art Center College of Design shows Yamaha-branded wearable motorcycle concept
Challenged to rethink motorcycle transportation, Art Center College of Design student Jake Loniak decided the idea of a machine as an extension of the body should be taken literally. Inspired by Biomechatronics and called the Deus Ex Machina (not to be confused with that other Deus Ex Machina from Australia), Loniak's concept is an electric, vertically parking motorcycle controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators.
The Yamaha-branded Deus Ex concept is worn as an exo-skeleton with seven artificial vertebra as well as the pneumatically attached helmet. The motor is in-wheel, powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries similar to those already used in hybrids. It's also capable of 0–60mph in three seconds. Top speed is 75mph with a recharge time of 15 minutes and cycle time of one hour.
As an exercise in urban transportation, we love the engagement a machine like the Deus would require. That said, the lack of storage or securement for a briefcase, purse or satchel means that even the average urban commute is beyond the Deus Ex Machina's current capabilities.
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This pice of crap is nothing but a Kinetica '''''knock off'''' it wouldn't be so bad if the back wheel didn't look so... so... well crapy, it just look's funny maby if it had two in back like in front. But the back wheel still look's like a sagway,,,, well however you spell "sagway", but the D.E.M. is the first kinetic transport to be a marketable bike to be made, but i know it is not the first one to be made. All in all the bike looks good and I would like to own one myself, that is whenever a 4 wheeled one or 2 wheeled one is made, just play the ps2 game "KINETICA" and you'll see, but before we can race like that we need to get beter prostatic's and the first fuell prostatic body is made available, hell i'd be glad to be the first one to get a full prostatic body. Than we can finally kill this carpy raceing called nascar "Oh my god there making a left turn, Oh my god it's a nother left turn" is there a crapper sport Ha Ha HAAAAAAA. Back to the D.E.M. it's ok but steal a "KINAETICA NOCKOFF" all in all I give it a 4 out of 10 which is not to say that's bad I just have a harsh scale but I hope it's the first of meany bike's to come and kill that crapy racecar sport if you can call it a sport.
P.S. This go's out to the maker's of the D.E.M. Im not that good of a drafter but I have a few,,,, well all my walls are filled with drafts based on KINETICA'S design's plus I've bin raceing since I was 10 on dirt bike's, atv, but you'r D.E.M. Oh my god I would still do any thing to race your bike's you are all god's. Please right me back Thank You.
The only problem that I see is that I am 56 years old and my life will probably be over before I get the honor of even sitting in one, rather than just driving one!
I guess the "Jetson's" will finally be here ....lol
Keep up the fantastic work of the future generations!
I could barely get through the comment from "Geist", posted 5/10. What's his first name,? Polter"? Instead of longing for an alternate means of transportation, he should go to school to learn spelling, grammer and English composition, before futher examples of his ignorance are posted.
OMG! Geist! Did you flunk English 101 or WHAT?!?!!?
Hey Professor(or are you really Gilligan)....its spelled grammar you putz....
Well F*#K you all about my speling, what I said is still true. The D.E.M. is a KINETICA nockoff. This pice of crap would be good if the developers could have made it look better. I would still be proud to race in the D.E.M. or / D.E.M.O. HAHAHA, but no one seems to like the idea of at least 1 purson to DIEING a race and bringing back the good old day's of BLOOD and GORE that we were so acustom to back in the colisum that is what these BIKE's should be used for. If you don't like this or my spelling WELL F*#K YOU ALL
Pleas don't for get to leave a comment.
P.S. My Nane is GEIST
This bike looks nothing like Kinetica since the racers in Kinetica are horizontal and just inches from the road with the wheels of the bikes attached to the racer's arms and legs.
the DEM is a sleek design, but it doesn't look like there are any headlights. Since there's nothing protecting the entire front of your body (except your face), visibility of the road ahead is of incredible importance.
Yeah, this wearable motorcycle is bad ass! I can't wait until they add alternate fuel systems or a combination of chemical propulsion systems with an electromagnetic propulsion system, so that it can ride on the ground with more than 1000 horse power easily, plus add a rocket jet pack with, and morphing materials with the frame; so it's like wings when flying down the strip!
LOL.
Tchao.
Geist:
It isn't the spelling that is the problem, it is the fact that you are an idiot.
The Deus Ex Machina is pretty cool and beautiful. I want one.