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Segway seems to have hardly been a dead end, or useless for that matter. Segway-style devices like the electric unicycle and many other light mobility devices s
by timcobb 2y ago
Segway seems to have hardly been a dead end, or useless for that matter. Segway-style devices like the electric unicycle and many other light mobility devices seem to be direct descendants of the Segway. Segway introduced gyroscopes to the popular tech imagination, at least in my lifetime (not sure before).
- wat10000 2y agoWhat other light mobility devices? E-bikes and scooters seem to be the big things and they’re not anything like a Segway descendant. A world where Segway never happened would be nearly indistinguishable from our own.
- Philpax 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_scooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_scooter Not the most popular, especially these days, but they are very much descended from Segways and have their own fans.
- marcosdumay 2y agoSmartphones introduced gyroscopes to popular tech (and no, people were imagining them before transistors), Segway had nothing to do with that.