The Segway, Five Years Later

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @03:00AM from the makes-a-guy-a-few-bucks-at-gen-con-every-year dept.

abb_road writes "The Segway was introduced with a promise to transform cities; BusinessWeek has an article on what the Segway has accomplished in 5 years, and how 'personal transportation,' and the company, have changed. From the article: 'The first Segway — a clean-running, technologically dumbfounding, fun-as-hell-to-ride device that was pretty much impossible to fall off of — was introduced to so much fanfare five years ago that the public-relations agency that helped engineer it still uses it as a case study in how to create a media frenzy. It may be an even better case study in media backlash. The initial euphoria had hardly worn off before a new consensus emerged: This was all much ado about a $5,000 scooter.'"

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All praise Google by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 03:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But what if some of the people whose personal info they provided had done nothing at all?
http://malfy.org/
Re:Cities redesigned by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 03:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yo mama so fat they redesigned *her* so she wouldn't brokez0red teh S3gw@y.
AN O THING by tod_miller · 2006-09-05 03:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just so you know

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Re:Cities redesigned by kz45 · 2006-09-05 06:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women"

Is this quote changed to be PC or something?