Exactly. Before we get caught up in the concept of wearble displays, I want my flying car! Heck I want my flying Jetsons-esque city! Crap, I settle for an affordable HDTV.
Disabled people will spend four figures on something that restores lost mobility and independence. Other people won't drop that much cash on what is for them a toy.
This is the dead on truth. When I first saw the unveiling of the Segway my immediate thought was, "This will be great for the disabled" and NOT, "Wow I can't wait to ride on that thing!"
Kamen erred in attempting to mass market an invention that occupies a niche in the entire scheme of things. Add to that fact design flaws like low top speed, crummy battery life and you have a piece of overpriced junk.
First, I never said I was cool, nor did I imply it in my post. Why you've made yourself flame bait puzzles me.
At any rate, to stay on-topic - imagine what people were saying when everyone in Ireland came to the United States after the Potato famine. I'm sure, they were saying something to the effect of, "There goes the neighborhood" and "Isn't it time we simply dealt with our own nationals?" This has been going on for quite some time, but that doesn't make it right.
And, this isolationist policy is the same thing ultra-conservatives in Europe are preaching. If you ask me, it's simply a higher-brow version of racism and segregation.
OK, this is the kind of hate mongering that is simply sad if you ask me. The United States IS the United States because we are a nation of immigrants. It's unfortunate that some individuals are so short sighted as to forget the Japanese interment camps in the 1940s, and also unfortunate that this isolationist foreign policy still feeds itself.
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Exactly. Before we get caught up in the concept of wearble displays, I want my flying car! Heck I want my flying Jetsons-esque city! Crap, I settle for an affordable HDTV.
This is the dead on truth. When I first saw the unveiling of the Segway my immediate thought was, "This will be great for the disabled" and NOT, "Wow I can't wait to ride on that thing!"
Kamen erred in attempting to mass market an invention that occupies a niche in the entire scheme of things. Add to that fact design flaws like low top speed, crummy battery life and you have a piece of overpriced junk.
I get the sig concept....but vulgarity...so immature, young one.
First, I never said I was cool, nor did I imply it in my post. Why you've made yourself flame bait puzzles me.
At any rate, to stay on-topic - imagine what people were saying when everyone in Ireland came to the United States after the Potato famine. I'm sure, they were saying something to the effect of, "There goes the neighborhood" and "Isn't it time we simply dealt with our own nationals?" This has been going on for quite some time, but that doesn't make it right.
And, this isolationist policy is the same thing ultra-conservatives in Europe are preaching. If you ask me, it's simply a higher-brow version of racism and segregation.
OK, this is the kind of hate mongering that is simply sad if you ask me. The United States IS the United States because we are a nation of immigrants. It's unfortunate that some individuals are so short sighted as to forget the Japanese interment camps in the 1940s, and also unfortunate that this isolationist foreign policy still feeds itself.