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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

SBU #2 is very special, the uber-SBU, for someone very special… stay tuned, this is not a myth. We’ve already said too much.

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 you know, [...]