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Segway HT Starts Selling
Ninja Master Gara writes "The much-hyped "IT", Dean Kamen's Segway Human Transporter, started selling Monday with a no-refund deposit of $495 on the $4,950 people mover for deliveries starting March 2003 on first come first serve basis.
"The Segway Human Transporter is one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time," Jeff Bezos, chief executive and founder of Amazon.com, said in heralding the availability of the vehicles on the online retailer's site." It's also the most overhyped and overpriced toy ever, and I'm kicking myself for posting it since that just contributes to the problem.
at least in Paris
Yeh, but that's France. Businessmen are expected to look gay as hell.
No, because while scooters looked stupid (and still do), the segway just looks gay as hell.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Could you imagine someone using a cell-phone while riding a Segway?
"A woman was brutally run over today by an errant Segway operator. When asked about the incident, the Segway driver claimed that his unit was faulty; it didn't include turn signals and the use of slothenly 'hand-signals' is be entirely out of the question."
I swear someone's gonna get smacked into and we'll have a lawsuit. You watch!
-Bullseye
Woo-hoo, a TOY that will get people to avoid even the most basic and simple bit of exercise called WALKING. People, particularly Americans, are pigs and idiots. They hop in their car to drive down the block to get a soda and then drive back home. They eat, eat, eat and sit on their fat, lazy asses and waste money on useless and silly toys.
For Mithras' sake, use your frickin' legs and DO something! Exercise you damn lazy, nasty, flabby lardasses. DON'T buy a segway, WALK. Or ride a bike. If you don't like the seat giving you a wedgy, get a reclining bike.
These toys should be largely relegated to foot patrol cops and mail delivery personnel. Everyone else can walk and burn a few frickin' calories to at least TRY to offset your billion calorie supersized McD's lardass lunch special.
Ya'll make me sick (those itching to have one of these things). Lazy-ass pigs.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
Well, then, you shouldn't believe the stereotype that /. readers never leave their computers. Sometimes, they go out and walk, and prefer to do so without being run off the sidewalk by some clown moving at sprint speed with 80 pounds of extra weight.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
Why did you post it then?
Two words: Paid advertising.
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.