Hey y’all, D-Mart here coming at you with some awesome news as far as the SBU Nerd Herd (Vancouver, WA division) goes! We’re going to Vegas for the 2009 Interbike Convention and we are PUMPED!  I’ve helped Focus Designs on a few video projects in the past (here and here) but I have to say that [...]

We spent the evening at the Unicycle Noobs event at the Portland waterfront Friday Night.  It’s an event put on by a Portland unicycle group call the Unicycle Bastards to teach noobies how to unicycle.  I showed up with 3 SBUs and let everyone pass them around, and did they ever!  Those Bastards (what? that’s [...]

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 [...]

The Columbian did an article about us.  Read it here: Bits ‘n’ Pieces: Camas man hops a ride to “MythBusters” Sunday, May 17 | 5:49 p.m. Top from left: “MythBusters” co-host Jamie Hyneman and Bobby Wood. Bottom from left: “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage, Daniel Wood and Jordan Thompson. It typically takes people 45 minutes to get [...]

Well, the day has come, a day that you have been waiting for, a day that will go down in history, no world peace has not come – SBUs are ready to ship!  We are totally excited to bring the SBU to the world! Click the shopping tab at the top to place an order. [...]

We are pumped!  The SBU will show up in an episode of Mythbusters called “Hang in there” which should air in the next few weeks.  It will also show up in a future episode called “Bullets Dropped vs. Fired” which should hit the air in about 3-4 months.  Viewing party anyone? Go Adam, go Adam, [...]

Yes again, we have a new website – new and improved! Online ordering coming soon! Tell your friends, your family, and your pets!

We have moved to a new crib yo. Ok, that’s not really how we talk, but we do have a new place in downtown Vancouver Washington, or the couve as we call it. Ok, we really don’t call it that either. The place is cool, a 3-story house with a basement built in 1912. We’re [...]

On the set of Mythbusters riding SBUs with Adam Savage and the Mythbusters crew – life is good! Daniel (SBU inventor) presented SBU #2 to Adam Savage (host of Mythbusters) on set at an undisclosed location. We are totally going to use Adam for all of our product testing, if he can’t break it, it [...]