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today's item has to be one of the ones i've i'm just

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confused about it i have no clue what to think like it's it's i don't know

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it's sort of thing that's rich people

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nonsense but at the same time kind of reasonable

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and maybe cool but also just really dumb so

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the people that made this clearly they just started with

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what i personally think is a terrible idea but then they have executed it in a

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way that at every single turn that they took they were just like you know what

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let's do it the best way possible it's the cocoa motors walk car

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the basic thought was you know what if you had

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a car but you could just put it in your bag

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so do we have a bag around here apparently it fits

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in the size of you know like a 13-inch laptop

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compared to my laptop right here it's um

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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

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get damaged but i don't think you can actually just

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take them off to put them in your bag yeah no that's not happening the basic thought

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of this is it's kind of like you know like a super small segway or something so

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you're going from like say the transit station to your work you just kind of pop this thing out of your

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bag check it on the ground you can zoom around or like go to businesses or

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stuff it's real like dense city getting around

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and it's two thousand dollars i don't know how to feel about that um

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so that's that's kind of where you get into the silly

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rich people side of this i'm pretty confused like how to feel about it

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because on one hand like two thousand dollars for this like

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come on but on the other hand like we're here in bc

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people spend loads of money on like atvs and random crap like that all the time

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like what does two thousand dollars get you like a polaris with bad tires from like the 90s and like

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every time that you get on it you feel like you're gonna die i don't think

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you're gonna feel like you're gonna die when you get on this thing at least i sure

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i hope not i'm also confused about who

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it's for a lot of these sort of like little like

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one wheels and that sort of stuff seem to be targeted more towards like

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basically kids that want to like rock it around and have fun whereas this is much

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more like professional seeming and some of the advertisements show like

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older people on it like it looks like they're walking but they're just on this thing it's pretty

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funny on the top we have a polycarbonate sheet

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and there's not a lot of grip like i would kind of think on the sides there's

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a bit of grip tape-y stuff but i would want to put on like some

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actual grip tape or at least like some sex wax or i guess

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for those of you that don't know that's what you put on like your surfboard to give you traction it's

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it's not lube how you use it is there are pressure sensors so

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i believe there's one here here and then there and there so

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for the front and back of each of your feet so you kind of like

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when it feels pressure on both of the front ones you know you go forward

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when it feels pressure on one side more than the other then you turn to that

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side and so on you get it i have no clue how it's going to feel apparently can go

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16 kilometers an hour there is a maximum weight of 80 kilograms though which is

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i think 180 pounds let's get into why

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i'm like so confused because it kind of just looks like

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a little toy but all of like the chassis

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is made out of a sheet of carbon fiber so

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it basically has like a carbon fiber monocoque it's pretty much an f1 car

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and then a lot of the other bits are made out of uh

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7075 aluminum they don't say the temper so it's

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pretty much meaningless it does mean that you have like magnesium copper and

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zinc in there it's it's good aluminum but again

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meaningless if you don't know the temper and apparently they have

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the smallest and most powerful in-wheel motors

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it's really impressive in a lot of ways despite being this

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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

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with i believe that it's under three kilograms so

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it is pretty similar to a lot of laptops in weight

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and size i don't have it on just yet

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i didn't want to just see what it feels like to stand on it one thing that i was

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pretty scared about when i first saw it was that like you hit just the smallest

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of pebbles and you would just die but one thing it has that really

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surprised me is four wheel independent suspension so

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each one has like a little spring in it so it can like move around and hopefully absorb bumps

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and rocks and stuff turn this on you just press this button right here that's sport mode

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that's off let's try it just there

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okay i don't like this

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i feel like that my feet weren't on the back sensors there

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okay

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i really don't like the stance my feet are like really close together and it's

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kind of terrifying like this is not a very like powerful

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stance like when you think about when you're on like a long board or like a

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surfboard or something you have like a much wider

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more generous stance than this we have sport mode

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it doesn't accelerate very briskly okay stopping stopping stopping

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i think that their method for stopping is terrible

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so what you have to do

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is lift one toe up but the problem is is that

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like when you're lifting one toe up you

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have so little balance and it's also really

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hard to control because you're naturally putting like more weight on your other leg which

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means you start turning

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okay 10 degree incline

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uh come on

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yeah well that was genuinely terrifying my expectation was that it would be kind

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of like yeah it doesn't really make sense for

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here but if you're in like a crowded city it could make a lot more sense but just

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the turning radius and the general control was not such

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that i would feel comfortable doing this in a crowd of people at all i am very

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sorry to the good people over at cocoa motors this is probably quite hard to watch but

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i am very curious to see what makes this thing tick

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oh you can look out

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okay now that we're in here we get to see the strain gauges that are measuring

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how much force you're putting on here so yeah one for each front foot and one for

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each back foot and how these work is basically you just have a whole bunch of little wires that

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are you know really close together and as

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you like push on them the distance between those wires

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changes which changes the resistance and all of this which is then measured

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by the microcontroller which tells us how fast to go

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now it is i'm really impressed by just

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the carbon fiber chassis that this thing has you can see

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everything's mounted to it so let's let's dig deeper

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there we go so here's our power input

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you can see there okay i was a bit confused there for a second because this is a 2700 milliamp hour battery whereas

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my pixel 5 here has 4080 milliamp hours

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which would mean that this is

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like way more battery than

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this guy here but it's because of the voltage so this is running at 25.2 volts

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so you know it's actually like a decent bit of power

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in here you get to see the suspension i was pretty confused there for a second

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so it looks like that it's pretty much

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only in this direction for the front as you can see here we've got a

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pretty stiff spring that goes along like that no damping as far as i can tell but

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like whatever the parts in here are really impressive like you can see this right

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here looks like that it's probably cast aluminum but this right here is all cnc machined

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or at least cast and then cnc machined all of the electronics here are

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conformal coated i would say that it's not waterproof well i guess there's a

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gasket in here so that's waterproof but if water gets in

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it's not going to be in great shape although what do you expect i don't know how i

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feel about this thing if i'm honest for nearly two grand us you can get like

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an e-bike which is pretty sweet or you can get a one-wheel which i think is

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a lot cheaper and seems just way more

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capable i was really hoping that i could tell you that like

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in its home country of japan if you're in like

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a dense city and you want to get from like the train to a business to wherever

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and have something that just like easily chucks in your backpack this

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thing's awesome i don't think i'd use it in a crowd like

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if there's people around i just don't have the confidence in

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using this like it doesn't break fast enough and

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the turning radius is just way too big for like weaving in

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between people that's about where we're at sorry well

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anyway this was a bit different but i hope you guys still liked the video

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uh hit like get subscribed and i don't know

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actually you have an hp laptop that's coming in this week and i am really

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excited for that bye