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Topic: So, What do you think of this?
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Zach
KingPin of the Monkey Farm
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posted 12-05-2001 09:52 AM
   
Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates his Segway Human Transporter, a one-person, battery-powered scooter, Monday, Dec. 3, 2001, in New York. The device, which travels at a top speed of about 12 mph, uses gyroscopes to keep it upright and discern where the rider wants to go.  It seems like it is cool, yet dorky to me.
[This message has been edited by Zach (edited 12-05-2001).] |
FatJohnny
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-05-2001 10:10 AM
The technology is the most impressive part to me. That battery is amazing. |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-05-2001 11:07 AM
I wonder if some people who buy them are going to be like uppity cyclists who indignantly ride on the road. |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-05-2001 12:46 PM
I can imagine allot of gyroscope removals in most hospitals, if they plan on putting that thing on the road.
What if the person driving it has schizophrenia?
I saw a reporter trying to do her monolog, and control that thing at the same time. She almost drove right into a crowd of people.
A woman. Schizophrenia. The same thing right?Good use: Large business's with long hallways. The Pentagon for example. [This message has been edited by Jogger (edited 12-05-2001).] |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-05-2001 12:59 PM
Yeah, or what if they had no legs, they'd be pretty fucked then too.Schizophrenia is pretty specific mucha cha, I don't get you sometimes. Or were you leading to the oh so quality joke about women and schizophrenia. Bring back puppet boy, at least he is crazy as a shtick. |
Puppet Boy
Monkey
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posted 12-05-2001 03:04 PM
That's Mr. Puppet Boy to you.
Sometimes Jogger likes to pretend he's cool. I've been watching, and he tends to do that allot. Fucking artist's. |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-05-2001 03:06 PM
Homosexual puppeteers with bad haircuts, most especially. |
FatJohnny
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 06:29 AM
That guy looks just a little too happy. |
manic_224
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 11:23 AM
Yea, that guy was in the newspaper yesterday. Who's the guy he's been compared to, the inventor, Thomas Edison or James Edison. Anyway, yea, he's the new him. Did that make sense?
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FatJohnny
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 11:26 AM
Did this Edison fellow you speak of look like he escaped from a retarded kids home? |
manic_224
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 11:45 AM
I don't think so. He invented a whole bunch of stuff using kinetic energy though. |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 12:16 PM
Like Jean Grey |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-06-2001 12:22 PM
Back to the picture itself, yes the guy is way to pleased to be riding his big scooter. |
Case B
Monkey
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posted 12-06-2001 04:03 PM
I'm just amazed that the briefcase he's got is able to keep its balance on such a precarious place. From this, I come to the decision that it's witchcraft that is propelling his strange vehicle along, and I vote that he be hanged, burned, or crushed to slow death with stones. Who's with me? |
catapault007
Monkey
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posted 12-07-2001 08:11 AM
Count me in. |
manic_224
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-07-2001 11:48 AM
Surely that's a little primative. If he is really using witchcraft, shouldn't we get him to make some more cool stuff? Like, for us? |
Nick Zbu
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-08-2001 12:50 AM
It's almost cool until you realize that outside of a major metropolitan area it's useless. |
Gypsy
Monkey
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posted 12-10-2001 09:25 AM
But that is the point of the exercise Nick , while everyone else is stuck in the traffic he can scoot along the footpath to get where he wants to go in half the time one smart cookie on his way to his first million . |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-10-2001 11:02 AM
Yeah right!
Could you imagine that thing traveling through a metropolitan area?
First off, it takes up almost the same area as two average humans. Secondly it moves slower than the average human walks. Thirdly it's controlled by our mind. God forbid the hot chick from the MATRIX walked by and caught our attention. (assuming you're a man, or lesbian).
Have any of you lived in a "metropolitan" area before? If so than you can see that this thing scooting along a sidewalk filled with thousands of people, traveling like ants on the march, would be disastrous.
I could imagine some little punk getting his $150.00 Nike shoe ran over.
"Yo bitch"! "You ran over my mother-fuckin shoe, mother-fucker".
The End.
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Case B
Monkey
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posted 12-10-2001 06:41 PM
beautiful story. |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-11-2001 03:49 AM
Geeee. Do you really mean it? Or, are you being a dick? |
Case B
Monkey
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posted 12-11-2001 04:02 AM
Well, um. I laughed? I guess you can take that either way, though. |
FatJohnny
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-11-2001 07:36 AM
Were you laughing like a dick? Once we determine that, I think we can finally address the real issue at the heart of all this. |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-11-2001 08:43 AM
Now I'm laughing like a dick.I still think Case B is Tostito. |
Tostito
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-11-2001 12:08 PM
My turn to join the laughing like a dick club. |
djgaming
Chimp with diapers
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posted 12-19-2001 08:29 PM
Imagine one of those scooters the size of a small car and the people sit inside is that the future my friends?
[This message has been edited by djgaming (edited 12-19-2001).] |
Lotus666
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-20-2001 06:17 AM
ROCKET CARS!  |
manic_224
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-20-2001 08:12 AM
Punctuation is our friend, djgaming. Don't be afraid to use it. |
The Metasynth
Chimp with diapers
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posted 12-20-2001 10:22 AM
We were wondering, when did the average human start walking faster than 12mph? |
Captain Grant
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-20-2001 06:35 PM
You're really starting to fill me with a nameless dread, dollface. |
The Metasynth
Chimp with diapers
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posted 12-20-2001 08:00 PM
Grant, are you capable of doing anything else than following us around WWYK? trying to pick fights with us? It's really becoming quite tiresome. |
Case B
Monkey
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posted 12-20-2001 08:13 PM
I love how he uses the little 'straight-face' icon to express his objective, mechanical nature. Oh hey, Metasynth, if you ever go on the AOL Instant Messenger, you might be interested in sparking up a conversation with SmarterChild. That bot is actually twenty times more interesting to talk with than you could ever be. |
Flossie
Chimp with diapers
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posted 12-20-2001 08:16 PM
YO! META! Long time no see. You been away from the flock a long time man. The other sheep have missed ya d00d... |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-21-2001 08:36 AM
We could have just as easily said the same thing about you my little delectable leg of lamb.Have you been good or ba'a'a'a'ad this year? [This message has been edited by Jogger (edited 12-21-2001).] |
Captain Grant
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-22-2001 12:27 AM
If mangling quotes from American Psycho for my own vague amusement is picking a fight, then BRING IT ON, SUSAN!Just to add my two censt, I don't find you annoying at all, Metasynth, not really. Never did. Thought you might be good for a laugh at one point, but you always refused to dare match wits with me. So whatever, girlfriend. |
Jogger
Monkey
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posted 12-24-2001 07:01 AM
Dean Kamen says:
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"Any place people walk, you could use this," he said. "We think that most people driving their SUV (sport utility vehicle) are going to want to put a couple of these in the back" for when they stop.
But, how will they get to the back of the SUV. Lets invent a flip out conveyer belt so to travel to the rear of the SUV with ease.
Morons! quote:
The Segway's price tag -- $8,000 to $10,000 for the first Human Transporters to go on sale early next year to large corporations -- may be a hurdle, Burns said.
This reminds me of the early 80’s when the government spent tens of thousands on fax machines, then threw them in the closet.
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Nick Zbu
ZooKeeper
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posted 12-26-2001 01:25 AM
If you have a SUV (not recommended), why do you even need a damn scooter? What the fuck is wrong with walking?Is there some horrid mutant strain of Athlete's Foot going around, robbing people of their natural need to locomote? Isn't this damn invention supposed to replace the fucking SUVs? Oh, my head hurts. |
djgaming
Chimp with diapers
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posted 12-29-2001 11:40 AM
I say we bump up the speed on those little units get ourselves some polo equipment and have a ball. I wonder what the sports related injuries would be like?
p.s. Is this the beginning of the Tron age? |
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