Best Name for EUCs

[EUC Custom Power-Pads]

21 minutes ago, tenofnine said:

Woah this Aneta dude is making some good point, you go girl!

Since Aneta is too shy, she asked me to answer you.

Dear tenofine, I have to disappoint you, I'm not a sexy girl, I'm just a fake, but I show you my true face, but only my face, the rest remains.
(No idea what's going on with @Rehab1and why I have to do his job?

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by buell47

[RoadRunner]

9 minutes ago, buell47 said:

Since Aneta is too shy, she asked me to answer you.

Dear tenofine, I have to disappoint you, I'm not a sexy girl, I'm just a fake, but I show you my true face, but only my face, the rest remains.
(No idea what's going on with @Rehab1and why I have to do his job?

 

 

[tenofnine]

10 minutes ago, buell47 said:

Since Aneta is too shy, she asked me to answer you.

Dear tenofine, I have to disappoint you, I'm not a sexy girl, I'm just a fake, but I show you my true face, but only my face, the rest remains.
(No idea what's going on with @Rehab1and why I have to do his job?

 

Wow....Excuse me.....Aneta go take a cold shower now...*phew*

[RoadRunner]

This happens when you faceplant on a hoverwheel. 

[Coffee guy]

Dammit !  That pic can’t be ‘unseen’ !  (puts sunglasses on).  

[vasuvius]

On 1/7/2020 at 1:15 PM, ZenRyder said:

If you want electric unicycles to increase in popularity, then we need to do it the old fashioned way. We need to share our experiences and talk to people about it. When someone yells out, "Hey, what is that?" We need to stop and tell them.

Totally agree with that. In 2 days of commuting on it, I've talked to numerous people about it at the train station, on the train and at work. I even rode it in the hallways at work.

One chap on the train immediately googled King Song and sent a link to a friend he thought would be interested :-)

I do plan to use the e-wheel (sorry, hoverwheel sounds silly to me) for local errands to generate more conversation. Going past the high school results in shrieks of "What the f*** is that?" from teenagers ;-)

[Aneta]

"Going past the high school results in shrieks of "What the f*** is that?" from teenagers ;-)" - "Hoverwheel!" will instantly satiate their urge to know. Ewheel or e-unicycle won't have this effect.

[vasuvius]

3 hours ago, Aneta said:

"Going past the high school results in shrieks of "What the f*** is that?" from teenagers ;-)" - "Hoverwheel!" will instantly satiate their urge to know. Ewheel or e-unicycle won't have this effect.

Well, in addition to not particularly liking 'hoverwheel', the word has a 'v' and 'w', and people of my ethnic origin - Indians - have a lot of trouble making those 2 sound distinct and correct.

e.g. Van often sounds like Wan. So, there is no way I'm likely to yell out 'howerveel' and have my kids friends make fun of my accent ;-)

[Aneta]

English is not my native language, too, so I have the same problem with 'v' and 'w'. This makes "ewheel" sound like "evil" - vowel before 'w' makes it harder to pronounce it correctly. 'r' before 'w' in "hoverwheel" makes it easier to make a small pause and pronounce 'w' correctly. But "hover" is such a distinct word that even with imperfect pronunciation it'll be easily understood.

[ZenRyder]

17 minutes ago, Aneta said:

But "hover" is such a distinct word that even with imperfect pronunciation it'll be easily understood.

The word "Dork" is easy to enunciate, but that doesn't make it a better description just because of how it rolls off the tongue.

No matter how much you continue to push for Hoverwheel, I still whely, whely don't wike it. 

[Aneta]

Initial resistance is normal. There has been such resistance, for example, for the word "drone":

https://makezine.com/2015/04/08/stop-using-word-drone/

Yet, drone is the most common name for it. All retailers call it drone.

https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=drone

Probably, same for "hoverboard", but a parent who would resist their kid calling it hoverboard or going to the store and insisting calling it something else, is a real dork. Same with hoverwheel, once it becomes a much better known product to masses.

[vasuvius]

Drone on, drone on, ..... drone on till your drones come true ....  ;-)

sorry, couldn't resist. 

[Aneta]

InMotion USA (EUCO) is selling "InMotion hovershoes":

https://www.myinmotion.com/products/inmotion-hovershoes-x1

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Hovershoes X1 (Hoverwheel brand)

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InMotion's latest invention takes the concept of a hoverboard and splits it into two independent machines: one for each foot!

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Hovershoes X1 are easier to learn and safer than hoverboards. And a lot more fun!

On Amazon these are also called "hoverskates" and "hoverwheels". See, "hover-anything" is making more and more strides and nobody is saying "but... it can't hover!" and soon it will be totally natural to call electric unicycles "hoverwheels". All of these are just variations of the same concept - self-balancing PEV.

Edited January 16, 2020 by Aneta

[tenofnine]

Hoverwheel is a hilarious oxymoron soccer mom term....what some out of touch corporate dingus who completely doesn't understand what they are looking it would call it.

Does it hover or does it roll on a wheel.....it can't do both. Like calling my car a truckmoped. Stop, get some help.

Hoverboard is a dumb name, and the product demands about as much respect as the original Segway does now, Hovershoes are dumb as well. Actually anything with the misnomer "Hover-" seems to be destined for failure.

 

[Aneta]

Hoverboard market was estimated at $1.7B in 2017 and predicted to reach $2.14B in 2023. Hardly a failure and not going anywhere, as well as the word 'hoverboard' itself. Hoverwheels are next.

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/hoverboard-market-2019-global-industry-share-demand-top-players-industry-size-future-growth-by-2024-market-reports-world-2019-08-26

 

[dmethvin]

I found a great new hoverwheel!

Edit: I have been told this is a hover-EEL. More specifically, that's a moray.

Edited January 17, 2020 by dmethvin
Correcting the record

[Aneta]

But there is something common between hover-wheels and hover-eels: neither is an electric unicycle!

[Aneta]

 

[Mono]

23 hours ago, Aneta said:

If what we ride is called "electric unicycle", should this be called "electric bicycle", since it has two wheels?

 

AFAIK this setup is usually called twin-, not bi-.

[RoadRunner]

15 hours ago, buell47 said:

 

 

This is so funny man, i am shitting my pants.  

And the best part is that he is absolutely ignoring all this, he must have a special ignore function that i want as well. 

[FrankFilmer]

7 hours ago, RoadRunner said:

And the best part is that he is absolutely ignoring all this, he must have a special ignore function that i want as well. 

Oh, he's got a few "special" functions alright... 🙈🙉

Edited January 17, 2020 by FrankFilmer

[EUC Custom Power-Pads]

Now I also know why Aneta thinks that our EUCs are actually called HOVERWHEELS. It's written very big on her Rockwheel GT16.

[travsformation]

@Aneta, I imagine it must be a bit unpleasant to be at the center of a joke like this, which is why I'm not participating, but you have to admit, you've brought this onto yourself...(and very constant and persistently, I might add...)

[Aneta]

Here's another example of a widely accepted word starting with 'hover': hovercraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft

Nobody considers this word "dorky". And it doesn't hover, either. Why 'hoverwheel' is getting so much resistance, then? Embrace it! At least, try it as an experiment for a limited time, use it for bystanders, on the forum, when you think about your wheel - and see if it grows on you. It did on me!

[RockyTop]

When I think of hoverwheel I think of those stupid two wheeled fire Starters that you see in “only at Walmart” YouTube videos. The first thing I would think is, how big of a fire will that thing start. The hoverboard is not a positive name to start with. I was very disappointed the day they came out because they used the name from one of my favorite movies as a lie. It doesn’t hover or look anything live Marty’s skateboard. I think I would prefer the name fart mobile.