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While it might look like some sort of torture device or, perhaps, part of a new ride at Magic Mountain, the Deus Ex (meaning "Out of God") is actually the brain child of Jake Loniak, a student at Art Center Pasadena, CA.

The Yamaha-branded machine is a concept that's described as 'an electric, single passenger, vertically parking and wearable motorcycle'. (Erm, IronMan anyone?) It basically straps around the driver and keeps them locked in.

The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and nano-phosphate batteries that are housed in the middle wheel. The eco-friendly batteries are similar to the one's used in hybrid cars and Jake reckons the 'bike' will reach a top speed of 75mph. As it accelerates, the 'bike' leans forward on the road, adopting a more conventional riding position.

The bike is controlled by using 36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators set along a spine consisting of 7 artificial vertebrae. Robocop, eat your heart out! Green Car Design

Not only does Mr. Leno have a warehouse full of every sort of car or bike you'd ever like to get your hands on - and likely some you've never heard of - he also gets offered a ton of cool stuff to drive or ride, too. "Hey, Jay, fancy a spin in the Veyron for a week?", is not a strange thing for the talk show host to hear.

Hence his time spent with an $80,000 Ducati Desmosedici RR. (Er, so what else comes with that exactly? Nothing? Just the bike? Got it...)

The bike weights just 377lbs, will rev to 14,000 rpm and has 197hp; as Leno says, it's the bike equivalent of a McLaren F1. Apart from all the road-going stuff that it has to sport - turn signals, mirrors etc - this is basically the race-spec bike.

Which begs the question - where, and how (given mortal riding limitations) are you ever going to use all of that performance? London Times

An abandoned car park + some good bike skills + nothing better to do in AZ = a video full of stoppies, wheelies and general 2-wheeled trickery.