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一个 19 岁MIT的学生的故事。。。
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Incoming M.I.T. Freshman Creates New Vehicle
Ben Gulak, who's starting college this semester at M.I.T., has already created a new
vehicle--an electric cycle you operate with body movement. Cynthia Graber reports
It’s not often that an incoming college freshman is already starting his own multimillion dollar
business. But that’s what’s happening to Ben Gulak. He’s a 19-year-old Canadian who’s just
starting at M.I.T. Gulak’s was inspired by the overwhelming smog he saw on a trip to China
two years ago. He thought there should be something better than all the polluting scooters. He
spent two years tinkering and came up with a contraption he calls the Uno. It’s an electric
vehicle that looks like a cross between a motorcycle and a unicycle.
There are actually two wheels, but they’re side by side, not front and back. And the controls
consist of a single on-off switch. You balance by simply sitting upright. You accelerate by
leaning forward. Leaning backward activates the brakes. And you turn by simply leaning to the
left or right. The computer control system is similar to that of the sidewalk Segway, but this
device is designed like a scooter to be ridden on the street. Gulak has already won a number
of prizes and gotten funding for his new Cambridge-based business. And he’s planning to
balance a double-major in mechanical engineering and business at M.I.T. Which should help
him get people to balance on Unos someday soon.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO4Ki8qsvk"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
Incoming M.I.T. Freshman Creates New Vehicle
Ben Gulak, who's starting college this semester at M.I.T., has already created a new
vehicle--an electric cycle you operate with body movement. Cynthia Graber reports
It’s not often that an incoming college freshman is already starting his own multimillion dollar
business. But that’s what’s happening to Ben Gulak. He’s a 19-year-old Canadian who’s just
starting at M.I.T. Gulak’s was inspired by the overwhelming smog he saw on a trip to China
two years ago. He thought there should be something better than all the polluting scooters. He
spent two years tinkering and came up with a contraption he calls the Uno. It’s an electric
vehicle that looks like a cross between a motorcycle and a unicycle.
There are actually two wheels, but they’re side by side, not front and back. And the controls
consist of a single on-off switch. You balance by simply sitting upright. You accelerate by
leaning forward. Leaning backward activates the brakes. And you turn by simply leaning to the
left or right. The computer control system is similar to that of the sidewalk Segway, but this
device is designed like a scooter to be ridden on the street. Gulak has already won a number
of prizes and gotten funding for his new Cambridge-based business. And he’s planning to
balance a double-major in mechanical engineering and business at M.I.T. Which should help
him get people to balance on Unos someday soon.
