Have you ever try unicycling? Bad souvenirs… But there is now a solution for the lazy circus clowns you are. Slovenian inventor Aleksander Polutnik created eniCycle, an electric unicycle operated by a self-balancing gyroscope system with an embedded processor and powered by an electric motor. This is one wheel of fun, gyroscope stabilization prevents falling forward / backward and direction steering is done by pressing on the left/right foot rest.

Unicycle has never been more easy: we can read on eniCycle website that during a field test of 15 persons in March 2008 shows, all the participants succeeded to start, ride a circle and stop in less than 30 minutes. eniCycle is in patent pending phase and but in summer 2009 is planned first serial production. Enicycle will be redesigned with new brushless motor, plastic battery compartment and standard low profile scooter tyre.

The future for the eniCycle is promising: “The market size for eniCycle can be estimated, if it is compared to the market of electrical bicycles and small electrical scooters […] Added value per unit in eniCycle can be much higher comparing to electrical bicycles and electrical scooters […] The production costs are a little higher than by simple electrical scooter because of more complex electronic and sensors.” No pricing information has been announced on the inventor’s website.

Do you want to see this unicycle version of the Segway in action? Watch the ‘Gadget Show presents the Enicycle’.