Hasta La Gadget!

It’s a Segway on a budget–an electric “unicycle” designed a 66-year-old retired factory worker in China. According to inventor Li Yunian, the whole thing cost less than £100 ($162) to create, batteries included. The invention isn’t actually a proper unicycle–it has one large wheel and three smaller ones for stabilization. Naturally, he named the thing the Cool Friend.

The vehicle can travel at blazing speeds of up to 12 miles an hour (and honestly, who would want to travel any fast on something that looks like that?) and can go 40 miles on a single charge. Yunian scored a patent for the Cool Friend and is in the process of setting up a manufacturing deal, because, you know, who couldn’t use a few more Cool Friends?