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Do We Really Need Another Segway?
Posted Aug 12th 2008 11:25AM by Ada Calhoun
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Wired's blog has the lowdown on a new kind of Segway, Toyota's Winglet. See it in action above. What's the purpose of these "personal transporters" again? They move at roughly the speed of walking (although the Segway can get up to 12 MPH), don't appear to have a lot of storage space, would be a hazard on a city sidewalk, and are super dorky. If you want to add pizazz to walking, why not just get cup stilts?
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1. I can see the farmer in a field working with on of these
Paul Fregosi at 12:07PM on Aug 12th 2008
2. The purpose, you ask?
Well that's obvious... they're designed to move our big fat lazy American asses around of course!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5821765895896581570&vt=lf&hl=en
FINN at 1:19PM on Aug 12th 2008
3. It's so the Prez can try it, ride around on it and spectacularly fall off. Now, that's entertainment.
Dave at 2:34PM on Aug 12th 2008
4.
The year is 2012, Toyota announces the development of home cranes. The cranes were developed to hoist big fat lazy American asses onto the segway. Toyota's president found sales of the segway were lagging and needed a new device to increase sales.
JefFlyingV at 1:39PM on Aug 12th 2008
5. I would get one designed as a peg leg with a wheel. I'd get a parrot on wheels and I'd wear me red shirt and me brown pants. Arrrrgghhh. No offense to Pirates.
Patty Murphy at 9:24AM on Aug 13th 2008
6. I guess this is what happens after you've finally exhausted the number of innovations that can built into a robotic dog.
bob at 9:56PM on Aug 12th 2008
7. We could use a segue instead - several of them, in fact, starting with a segue from an economy that serves private offshore global interests and weakens the US and her citizens into one that once again serves the interests of the United States and her people, an idea that was abandoned by Reagan and the republicanist/neocon party.
Clif Kuplen at 10:07PM on Aug 12th 2008
8. Clif,
I see your Leftist Economic Ignorance is still going strong. Here is a lesson in taxation:
A)Democrats claim that raising taxes on cigarettes leads to less people smoking.
B)Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on Investments and Corporations.
It is a well known fact that the more you tax something the less you get of it. That, combined with frivolous litigation and over regulation, is the reason for Corporations heading overseas. Just check out how Ireland is booming since it slashed its Corporate Tax Rate.
Paul Sparcello at 11:15AM on Aug 13th 2008
9. In the words of Tina Turner,
We don't need another segway!
We don't need another way home!
All we want is life beyond the pedestrian!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1586748649815869990&vt=lf&hl=en
There's got to be something better out there!
FINN at 4:04PM on Aug 13th 2008
10. It is a well known fact that the more you tax something the less you get of it. That, combined with frivolous litigation and over regulation, is the reason for Corporations heading overseas. Just check out how Ireland is booming since it slashed its Corporate Tax Rate.
Paul Sparcello at 11:15AM on Aug 13th 200
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so says rush. Want a cracker?
Your country is in debt for trillions because the users of the Commons don't pay for it. End of story.
Clif Kuplen at 2:04AM on Aug 14th 2008