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The term you are looking for is Monowheel.
There's a guy who hand built one of these and rides it in Fourth of July parades. It looks wildly out of control and enticingly dangerous. He wears boots with roller-skate wheels on the bottom for stabilization.
He's pictured on the Monowheel wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowheel
There's a great page on Monowheels here too: http://www.impactlab.com/2006/11/27/history-of-the-worlds-craziest-invention-the-monowheel-with-amazing-pics/