Last week was a big week for us…we drove down to Vegas for the interbike expo, I was featured in the Columbian newspaper, Honda released their U3-X “unicycle” design and it appears that the SBU will actually be in the next MythBusters episode on October 7th. Things are moving along nicely here at Focus Designs.
The [...]

Okay, little girls that have been riding unicycles for years can learn it in a few minutes.
David Martschinske and I were invited to bring some SBUs to the Unicycling Club at Pleasant Valley Middle School last Wednesday.  We brought 3 SBUs not knowing if the kids would be daring enough to give them a go. [...]

KGW NewsChannel 8 in Portland Oregon ran a story on us.  Check out the nerd herd here:
http://www.kgw.com/archive/59549397.html

Here comes the wave.

The Oregonian just ran an article about us. Read it here:
Vancouver engineer invents self-balancing unicycle
by Allan Brettman 
Monday May 25, 2009, 6:05 PM

Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian – Daniel Wood, co-founder of Focus Designs and inventor of the Self-Balancing Unicycle, demonstrates the battery-powered gadget outside his downtown Vancouver office. Wood, who created the company with his [...]

Daniel Wood (SBU inventor) meets Dean Kamen (Segway inventor) and in a fight to the death… opps, wrong story. Daniel presents the first SBU to Dean at his house – Dean instantly falls in love. The question I have is what happens if the SBU and the Segway, well you know, come on [...]

Watch a celebrity, David, learn to ride the SBU. (Ok, David is only a celebrity to his mama, but we think he’s pretty cool.) Check it out on the Media page.