Trying Out Honda's new personal mobility device -- watch out Segway

Personal mobility devices will likely become more and more popular as they smaller and less expensive.

Honda One-Ups Segway With the Cool U3-X

Honda's very polite but very nervous engineers held their breath as I prepared to mount the U3-X, the company's futuristic "personal mobility" prototype. It's a unicycle of sorts that works a bit like a Segway. Although I approached the machine with the utmost care and followed Honda's explicit instructions to wear pants -- no skirts, they warned, and I can see why -- the engineers were just a wee bit antsy.

"Gently," one of them said. "Make sure you make adjustments very gradually."

Read more on Honda's U3-X.