RONINNNN!!!!!!!!
Are the inventors going to ride in on Segways?
RONINNNN!!!!!!!!
That was my first thought too, high five!
More imprtantly, will Algore and his entourage be showing up in big, gas-guzzling SUV's .......again?
The Segway was the first thing that sprang to mind for me. It's a pretty neat gadget, but it was way over-hyped. Its max speed of 15 mph and max range of about an hour keep it from shaking the world. As does the $5000 price point. If it sold for a few hundred, I'd own one. I'm fairly young and fairly healthy, and at five grand, with its speed and range limitations, I'd rather buy a bicycle,
What's much more interesting is the iBot. It's a wheelchair, stabilized with gyroscopes like the Segway -- when they were in development the two projects wee code-named "Fred" and Ginger" after the eponymous Astaire and Rogers. The iBot lifts its occupant up to an adult's standing height and it can climb stairs.