The electric trilobite that you can ride

This is either the goofiest ride ever, or the coolest. Or both.

Test-driving the Electrobite, a trilobite-shaped DIY vehicle

It’s a steel/leather/resin trilobite shell over a modified wheelchair (with room for a propane tank if you want it to shoot fire). While it was – surprise! – built in San Francisco for use at Burning Man, I have the sneaking suspicion that with a bit of work, they might be able to sell these, at least as kits. Molds could be made from this and fiberglass copies made without too much difficulty. Beyond the Dirty Hippie market, I could see these tooling around natural history museums, up and down sidewalks, even around Wal Mart. it certainly seems more practical than a Segway. Heck, make a slightly bigger version and build it onto of a jetski.

Might want to leave out the flamethrower option, however. That’s just lawyerbait right there.