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"b_80" Personal Portable Transportation
b_80 is a human powered machine, with weight and dimensions that suggest its portability, thought for daily life as a way to make trips easier and faster, for example between the different public transportation, confiring adaptability to the circumtances that the city life infers. Also, by using human power the user makes excercise, improves his health and reduces the stress.
b-80 is easier to ride in comparision to the conventional unicycle, because the supporting point its located 80 mm below the center of the wheel. This difference provides enough stability to be easily used by common people.
Its folding time and weight makes the portability easier and allows faster transitions for the user when b_80 carries him, or wenn the user carries the vehicle with himself.
This product is an agile vehicle in the city reduced spaces.
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Finding of the jury:
Over the years personal mobility devices have been a tradition in the BraunPrize. It is interesting to continue the search of a prominent solution for the personal transportation of the future.
In this since b_80 is an attractive design concept. With the actual technological advances this product can be developed. The functional proposal should be worked with more detail, above all critical support points and mechanical efforts. The presentation of the project has very good quality.
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