today's item has to be one of the ones i've i'm just
confused about it i have no clue what to think like it's it's i don't know
it's sort of thing that's rich people
nonsense but at the same time kind of reasonable
and maybe cool but also just really dumb so
the people that made this clearly they just started with
what i personally think is a terrible idea but then they have executed it in a
way that at every single turn that they took they were just like you know what
let's do it the best way possible it's the cocoa motors walk car
the basic thought was you know what if you had
a car but you could just put it in your bag
so do we have a bag around here apparently it fits
in the size of you know like a 13-inch laptop
compared to my laptop right here it's um
it's a lot thicker i don't think the wheels come off i know that you can take them off to like replace them if they
get damaged but i don't think you can actually just
take them off to put them in your bag yeah no that's not happening the basic thought
of this is it's kind of like you know like a super small segway or something so
you're going from like say the transit station to your work you just kind of pop this thing out of your
bag check it on the ground you can zoom around or like go to businesses or
stuff it's real like dense city getting around
and it's two thousand dollars i don't know how to feel about that um
so that's that's kind of where you get into the silly
rich people side of this i'm pretty confused like how to feel about it
because on one hand like two thousand dollars for this like
come on but on the other hand like we're here in bc
people spend loads of money on like atvs and random crap like that all the time
like what does two thousand dollars get you like a polaris with bad tires from like the 90s and like
every time that you get on it you feel like you're gonna die i don't think
you're gonna feel like you're gonna die when you get on this thing at least i sure
i hope not i'm also confused about who
it's for a lot of these sort of like little like
one wheels and that sort of stuff seem to be targeted more towards like
basically kids that want to like rock it around and have fun whereas this is much
more like professional seeming and some of the advertisements show like
older people on it like it looks like they're walking but they're just on this thing it's pretty
funny on the top we have a polycarbonate sheet
and there's not a lot of grip like i would kind of think on the sides there's
a bit of grip tape-y stuff but i would want to put on like some
actual grip tape or at least like some sex wax or i guess
for those of you that don't know that's what you put on like your surfboard to give you traction it's
it's not lube how you use it is there are pressure sensors so
i believe there's one here here and then there and there so
for the front and back of each of your feet so you kind of like
when it feels pressure on both of the front ones you know you go forward
when it feels pressure on one side more than the other then you turn to that
side and so on you get it i have no clue how it's going to feel apparently can go
16 kilometers an hour there is a maximum weight of 80 kilograms though which is
i think 180 pounds let's get into why
i'm like so confused because it kind of just looks like
a little toy but all of like the chassis
is made out of a sheet of carbon fiber so
it basically has like a carbon fiber monocoque it's pretty much an f1 car
and then a lot of the other bits are made out of uh
7075 aluminum they don't say the temper so it's
pretty much meaningless it does mean that you have like magnesium copper and
zinc in there it's it's good aluminum but again
meaningless if you don't know the temper and apparently they have
the smallest and most powerful in-wheel motors
it's really impressive in a lot of ways despite being this
should we just do it jono yeah but before talk about it oh yes
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carrying handle here it's pretty easy to just you know walk around
with i believe that it's under three kilograms so
it is pretty similar to a lot of laptops in weight
and size i don't have it on just yet
i didn't want to just see what it feels like to stand on it one thing that i was
pretty scared about when i first saw it was that like you hit just the smallest
of pebbles and you would just die but one thing it has that really
surprised me is four wheel independent suspension so
each one has like a little spring in it so it can like move around and hopefully absorb bumps
and rocks and stuff turn this on you just press this button right here that's sport mode
that's off let's try it just there
okay i don't like this
i feel like that my feet weren't on the back sensors there
okay
i really don't like the stance my feet are like really close together and it's
kind of terrifying like this is not a very like powerful
stance like when you think about when you're on like a long board or like a
surfboard or something you have like a much wider
more generous stance than this we have sport mode
it doesn't accelerate very briskly okay stopping stopping stopping
i think that their method for stopping is terrible
so what you have to do
is lift one toe up but the problem is is that
like when you're lifting one toe up you
have so little balance and it's also really
hard to control because you're naturally putting like more weight on your other leg which
means you start turning
okay 10 degree incline
uh come on
yeah well that was genuinely terrifying my expectation was that it would be kind
of like yeah it doesn't really make sense for
here but if you're in like a crowded city it could make a lot more sense but just
the turning radius and the general control was not such
that i would feel comfortable doing this in a crowd of people at all i am very
sorry to the good people over at cocoa motors this is probably quite hard to watch but
i am very curious to see what makes this thing tick
oh you can look out
okay now that we're in here we get to see the strain gauges that are measuring
how much force you're putting on here so yeah one for each front foot and one for
each back foot and how these work is basically you just have a whole bunch of little wires that
are you know really close together and as
you like push on them the distance between those wires
changes which changes the resistance and all of this which is then measured
by the microcontroller which tells us how fast to go
now it is i'm really impressed by just
the carbon fiber chassis that this thing has you can see
everything's mounted to it so let's let's dig deeper
there we go so here's our power input
you can see there okay i was a bit confused there for a second because this is a 2700 milliamp hour battery whereas
my pixel 5 here has 4080 milliamp hours
which would mean that this is
like way more battery than
this guy here but it's because of the voltage so this is running at 25.2 volts
so you know it's actually like a decent bit of power
in here you get to see the suspension i was pretty confused there for a second
so it looks like that it's pretty much
only in this direction for the front as you can see here we've got a
pretty stiff spring that goes along like that no damping as far as i can tell but
like whatever the parts in here are really impressive like you can see this right
here looks like that it's probably cast aluminum but this right here is all cnc machined
or at least cast and then cnc machined all of the electronics here are
conformal coated i would say that it's not waterproof well i guess there's a
gasket in here so that's waterproof but if water gets in
it's not going to be in great shape although what do you expect i don't know how i
feel about this thing if i'm honest for nearly two grand us you can get like
an e-bike which is pretty sweet or you can get a one-wheel which i think is
a lot cheaper and seems just way more
capable i was really hoping that i could tell you that like
in its home country of japan if you're in like
a dense city and you want to get from like the train to a business to wherever
and have something that just like easily chucks in your backpack this
thing's awesome i don't think i'd use it in a crowd like
if there's people around i just don't have the confidence in
using this like it doesn't break fast enough and
the turning radius is just way too big for like weaving in
between people that's about where we're at sorry well
anyway this was a bit different but i hope you guys still liked the video
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actually you have an hp laptop that's coming in this week and i am really
excited for that bye