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Remember when Dean Kamen claimed that the Segway would change the way we built cities? Most hilarious product launch ever.
by dools 16y ago
Remember when Dean Kamen claimed that the Segway would change the way we built cities? Most hilarious product launch ever.
- ceejayoz 16y agoTalk about overpromising and underdelivering. I remember people speculating that he'd designed a compact, powerful hydrogen fuel cell, hoverboard or something similar.
- jonah 16y agoLike either of those would be massively revolutionary either.
- neworbit 16y agoWell, by comparison...
- jonah 16y agoThere already are portable fuel cells, you still have to get the Hydrogen somewhere. Now if the Orbo worked, that'd be something different. As for a hoverboard - sure it's technically more interesting than a Segway, but would it truly revolutionize anything?
- pyre 16y ago> As for a hoverboard - sure it's technically more interesting > than a Segway, but would it truly revolutionize anything It would for the cast of Back to the Future on Ice. ;-) Seriously though, I think that the technology behind a hoverboard would probably have far more implications than the technology behind the Segway. The product itself might not revolutionize much, but the technology behind it would.
- maushu 16y agoI agree, the hoverboard itself would revolutionize much (well, maybe for skaters), but the technology behind would change how we travel; Heck, we could use it to decrease the weight of the cars we currently use at least.
- tlrobinson 16y agoThis was the first thing I thought of when I read the parent comment.
- jpcx01 16y agoIt did! I see parking attendents on segways every single day. Segway is directly responsible for a rise in parking tickets. Wonderful product!