Filed under: iPod Family
Mopah scooter uses iPod as its key
Michael Tseng is finishing up his five years in design school, and offers as his senior thesis the Mopha scooter, which uses an iPod as its "key." To start it up, you place your iPod into a dock that's located just above the handlebars. The scooter then reads the iPod's unique serial number and starts the engine. As you ride, the music on your iPod plays through speakers built into the seat. You can't buy one yet, as Michael is still looking for those key initial investors. My only question is this: Can I drive that thing around Boston without getting beat up?
[Via Engadget]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Guillermo said 11:58AM on 8-11-2005
My question is how can a design student design something so fugly?! It looks incredibly uncomfortable, too.
Nice site, though.
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Dave said 12:08PM on 8-11-2005
Fugly? I thought it had kind of a cool, minimalist, mod look. Eye of the beholder, I guess...
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Derek said 12:22PM on 8-11-2005
It looks like an Apple II on wheels.
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Wheels said 12:46PM on 8-11-2005
Aren't the speakers built into the seat, not build? And, I must agree, that thing is pretty fugly.
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Kacy said 2:59PM on 8-11-2005
I am not sure I'd want to be caught riding that on the streets of new york for any number of reasons.
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Seabass said 6:22PM on 8-11-2005
"Can I drive that thing around Boston without getting beat up?"
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Fuck no.
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marcello said 4:40AM on 8-12-2005
beside the total ugliness of the thing, which can be quite based on personal judgement, what really bothers me is that the next thing you would probably ride after a stroll on a sharp-edged metal-reinforced wooden seat on anything else than a ice rink is a damn wheelchair...
come on... he studied design and interaction for five years to come with something THIS stupid???
bha...
M
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