Dear Reader,


I really hope that a website like Sci-Forums with it's combined talents will never "segway" into oblivion!!! A portion of this well packaged website has morphed itself into a "geo political socio techno curio" think tank of the cutting edge!!! Well, morphed may be the wrong word considering that all the elements to spring board these elements into something big(gerthanitalreadyis) are right here!!! There are so many totally unbelievable truths that are stranger than fiction that thought provoking forums like these have gelled into a truly remarkable mainstay in the "techno blur" of cyber citizenry! In a way, it is sad that a novelty with little real value other than ultra high priced entertainment such as the "Segway" can evoke such intense interest and resources while the really important advances in technology are being swept under the rug in the name of some people's truly pathetic false god, the almighty dollar! I honestly think forums like this and it's encouragement and incitement for the free exchange of ideas, is MUCH more important than some upper crust pseudo-revelation. I can picture the T.V. info-mercials for the segway now, it starts out in black and white....only the rider and his two wheeled, automaton piloted cyber rickshaw are in vivid color. Watch how the rider deftly and gracefully leaves his garage in the burbs in perfect sync with his neighbors and gracefully pirouettes at the end of the block almost hinting of the dance that worker bees do to lead the others to the latest cache of nectar in a distant field.... The rider now merges seamlessly with the other drones as they migrate toward their inner city honeycombs. The camera pans out and scans the horizon......the sky's the limit, man!........and you can just catch the glimmer of the setting sun on the miasma of chemtrails wafting down onto the carefree road dancers whose physical sense of balance is now as artificial as their socially engineered collective sense of mental balance. Call me a hypocrite, but I will probably give Kamen's toy a try if one comes available for rent in my area sometime.....I think I'll take it for a spin on over to the cemetery and do the "segway shuffle" all over Orwell's grave, that way he won't be rollin over alone!!!

Peace friends and remember,
In the real world, toys invariably trump truth! ;^(

Welcome to Sciforums, techstuf.

A very colorful picture you paint there. For three thousand dollars I can think of other places I would spend the money. Those would be things I wished more than a way to get around without having to walk. Walking is not such a bad pastime that I am willing to forgo it.

I think what's really interesting about the Segway is its user interface. Users claim that you really only need to 'think' about where you want to go -- largely because the interface mimicks what humans do intuitively. On a conceptual level, it uses computation to abstract away the underlying realities of transportation (ie. the surface properties, the need to balance, etc.) and enables one to accomplish the task (go from A to B) with the least cognitive effort required. In this way, the UI is totally successful.

Without the UI, it is just an overpriced motor on a stick.



/rushes off to register "geopoliticalsociotechnocurioforums.com"

The info-mercial queues with the theme song........"Lean on me"......as the latest GPS piloted consumer "segway" model is introduced.....camera slowly zooms in from high above the city. Riders everywhere milling about like tiny creatures from last week's "Outerlimits" re-run.......as the camera pans downward into the majestic melee of the pseudo ruling worker class "hive" dance.......riders can be seen reading the daily paper, checking their heads-up holographic daily planners or watching cyber kitsch re-runs of "Total Recall" or better yet: ''willy wonka's chocolate factory". All of them being whisked off to their destinations without a worry or a care......but what's this?........the camera tracks slowly upward at first.........now gaining incredible, virtual neck whipping speed.........to the top of a newly built skyscraper. A man sitting. Watching it all below from the same vantage point as the camera at the opening shot. His face a bit disshevilled, his hands wringing about one another............he suddenly shouts: "SERENITY NOW"!!! And then........almost as graceful as the man in the instantly famous streaming video of the consumer segway model.............He dances right of the building! The camera races to catch up with the hurtling man and accosts him on the way down.......now falling parallel with one another......the man stares at the camera blankly and the camera zooms in on the man's wrist........his ID location mark is clearly visible........and then.......BLACK! Suddenly, light..........lighter..........blinding light now........The man wakes up........It was just a horrible nightmare! He glances over to his only friend........his confidante......yes, his scooter. He's home.........he's safe.........safe from everything.......fade out.......

P.S. the directors cut showing the man sleeping with his segway clutched in his arms in a loving embrace just before camera fade out can be viewed in "Trans-lobal" stereographic streaming video at the "geopoliticalsociotechnocurioforums.com" website.........that is if you have version 7.1 of Holodexter Directware by Mwahahaah INC.

TechStuf

P.S. I almost forgot...........the man falling.....is Kramer aka. Michael Richards............same hairdo........but whitening..........and in the director's cut..........he rolls over to fall asleep after his "nightmare" and gives his trademark cheeeeze smile and a thumbs up with his cute lil' segway clutched to his chest.......Giddyup. (insert Rod Serling theme here.)

My only disappointment with the item is its reliance on wheels. i was hoping it could fly.

Viktor Grebennikov supposedly discovered bio-gravitics properties in certain insects. He also is supposed to have even gone so far as to create an "antigrav scooter" from said discovery! Wild stuff.......the story is just crazy enough to be true......and easily proven or disproven .........if you could just get your hands on the type of insect he was working on!..........


techstuf

Grebennikov antigravity discovery? (http://www.amasci.com/greb/greb2.html)