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Megway - New Competition For The Segway

Posted by timothy on from the oh-lighten-up-mr-serious dept.

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.

16 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. Hey by timothv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone call that guy that posts in every segway discussion so he can clarify how great the segway is.

    1. Re:Hey by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't laugh, I work with the guy. His wife agreed to let him get the Segway he wanted in exchange for his letting her get the boobjob she wanted.

      And while he's out riding his Segway, the pool boy is riding his wife.

  2. Slashdotted Already?! by JMandingo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The MegWay can only carry one person at a time, and so can their website.

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  3. It's slashdotted already by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 4, Informative
    But this is quite a useful link.

    Isn't it a bit late for April 1st?

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  4. I wonder by azav · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Megway has a sister, does the brand name change?

    And can we order hotter models?

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  5. Mirror of Quicktime video by timothv · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mirror of the quicktime video here

  6. But Segway is fighting back by tcd004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    With a series of ads.

    tcd004

  7. How to render the Segway obsolete... by Radi-0-head · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this site sums it up pretty well: Why the Segway is bloatware

  8. and there it is by boarder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    Also, as a long-time reader of /., I'd prefer to keep the joke stories confined to Apr 1st.

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    1. Re:and there it is by BW_Nuprin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Err, yeah, who here has 200 close friends?

  9. Megway. Bigger than Jesus. by rheimbuch · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  10. obligatory by moviepig.com · · Score: 4, Funny
    While waiting for the Megway web site to materialize, I realized the undoubted imminence of these further Segway competitors:

    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

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  11. Uh, this joke is AT LEAST TWO YEARS OLD? by g8orade · · Score: 4, Informative

    See this link...

  12. If there's one thing that I can't stand... by mojotooth · · Score: 4, Funny

    more than a joke that I don't get, it's a joke that gets slashdotted before I can get it.

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  13. READ THE THING by neoshroom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  14. another tired dupe by lophophore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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