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Megway - New Competition For The Segway
mikep.maine writes "The personal mobility market is heating up. Witness this practical device featured by
Megway. I already have one, but it isn't cheap." Check Yahoo! personals for availability.
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Someone call that guy that posts in every segway discussion so he can clarify how great the segway is.
The MegWay can only carry one person at a time, and so can their website.
Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
Isn't it a bit late for April 1st?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
If Megway has a sister, does the brand name change?
And can we order hotter models?
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Mirror of the quicktime video here
With a series of ads.
tcd004
BUT It's a JOKE! and an old one at that!
How can you laugh if you haven't bothered to even look at the pretty pictures?
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
I think this site sums it up pretty well: Why the Segway is bloatware
OK, so now that the site has finally loaded, I can see that this is a [not very funny] joke site. Seriously, I see that Timothy put on the headline that it is from the lighten-up joke dept, but if you are going to post a fake site on a supposed news site, at least make sure you bandwidth test it before posting. You could've had 200 of your closest friends load the site and see how fast it loads... scale that up by 3 orders of magnitude and you can determine that a joke that takes 20 minutes to load isn't all that funny.
/., I'd prefer to keep the joke stories confined to Apr 1st.
Also, as a long-time reader of
IANAL, but I play one on
I realize that the sites already slashdotted, so here's the google cache http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:cBtUbkK6lukJ:we b.0sil8.com/episodes/megway/home.html+megway&hl=en of the front page.
For the humor impaired: this is a parody of the segway.
-- I take full responsibility for the failure of the project do to my tendency to underestimate your incompetence.
I find it amusing that one has to check the personals nowadays to find something to ride ;)
The one with a breathalyzer: Kegway
The overpriced one: Begway
The one that always craps out: Legway
The official one: Regway
The souped-up red one: Nutmegway
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
Actually, somebody agrees with you, a fellow came up with a better design which requires no complicated electronics.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
See this link...
more than a joke that I don't get, it's a joke that gets slashdotted before I can get it.
-- Mojo Tooth : exploring our world as only an idiot can.
Some of your replies:
So what's the point? To make people look even more stupid that they do on a segway?
to the tremendous hype that was built around it. There was one good fallout from all the hype though. People started to think of alternatives. That I believe is the true value of the Segway and now the "MegWay"
If Lindows lost to MS, then Megway is certainly going to be sued by (and lose to) the Segway guys.
It's very similar to the Segway, certainly in the same market, and it's name only differs by one letter. Surely Segway's lawyers won't be happy.
Did anyone even read the article? Newsflash (with annoying scolling subtitle): Its a spoof.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
News? Hardly. Google shows this foolishness was on the web in December 2001. It wasn't very funny then, and it is even less funny today.
Can we have a subject category for irrelevant, boring dupes?
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
This was on memepool over 3 years ago.
-Polyhead-
For $1,100 i just purchased an electric assisted Bicycle.
It amounts to a $300 bike with a built in $700 electric motor assist.
The motor gets me up hills, and up to speed quickly so that I spend most of my 40 minute commute at the top speed of 19 MPH.
I look forward to the commute - and I look forward to pissing off the SUV commuters wanting to pass on a two lane xero shoulder road.
Highly recommended - plus I'm losing weight!
AIK
Let's not pretend. Biking in the midst of the SUV arms race is definately a form of Darwinianism.
Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)
If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle
This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.
If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.
Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.
So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.
So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).
AIK