Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

Ah, those days when you first learn to ride a bicycle. Most start with training wheels, but eventually have to take them off and deal with the scrapes and cuts you first get when you start to learn to balance on two wheels. GyroBike, a start-up spun-off from Dartmouth College, aims to make those “boo-boos” a thing of the past. When a child starts to lose balance, a gyroscope attached to the front wheel corrects for the error and stabilizes the bike.

“It actually makes it easier to learn to ride a bike because this is actually how people ride and recover from falling,” said Errik Anderson, a venture capital consultant who is helping the company.

Training wheels, according to Anderson, are unnatural. They prevent a bike from falling over, but don’t teach kids about balance. By contrast, the GyroBike wheel relies on natural physical forces. [Source: News.com]

There’s a video on this page, as well as more detailed info on just how it works.

We Say: Hmm… time to start shorting your Johnson & Johnson stock because of a potential for less Band-Aid sales? Seriously, though, at $39, this is a pretty good deal. Expect these to show up later this year or early next year.

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