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It's too bad Google Glass seems to be going the way of Segways and Bluetooth headsets -- great inventions that everyone is too embarrassed to be seen with.
by gkoberger 14y ago
It's too bad Google Glass seems to be going the way of Segways and Bluetooth headsets -- great inventions that everyone is too embarrassed to be seen with.
- d23 14y agoHopefully if/when the technology gets small enough to resemble sunglasses or eyeglasses that will change. Bluetooth headsets never had a chance since they didn't resemble anything non-dorky.
- gosu 14y agoWhy does the Segway qualify as a great invention? I had always thought of it as worse in every way compared to a bicycle or scooter for able-bodied people.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoSegways aren’t particularly useful but their balancing system is pretty nifty: http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/ginger1.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/ginger1.h...
- amalcon 14y agoThe iBot (the wheelchair using the same technology) was a great invention. The main problem with it was that it was too expensive.
- conroe64 14y agoYou don't need to worry about parking your segway outside the place your going to if you enter the building with it. So, opposed to using a bicycle or scooter, someone stealing it while you're away is not an issue. It's upright, so you can be seen crossing the street by motorists, which gives it an advantage over a motorized wheel chair. It saves energy compared to driving a car and it's use would greatly reduce traffic where cars are normally used.
- Avshalom 14y agoSegways weren't a great invention that people were embarrassed by. They were an extremely expensive toy that didn't solve anyone's problems and were bulky enough that they made new problems when people tried to use them. Bluetooth headsets... are still being used frequently? They haven't seemed to go any particular way.
- baddox 14y agoI see people with Bluetooth headsets every day. That was true when I lived in a Midwest town of 100k people, and it's true now in San Francisco.