Recent articles about the segway

[segwayowner]

Instead of posting these articles as different threads, I thought I would consolidate them into one.

"Sprawl & Crawl - Trendy scooter may 'segway' to Metro use - Steve Eldridge"
http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/06/19/columns/sprawl_and_crawl/79sprawl20.txt

"Local laws an obstacle for Segway"
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/11933892.htm

"Segway shop owner prepares"
http://www.oceancity.md/octoday/headline.cfm?PubID=2929

"Designing the Segway Human Transporter"
http://www.macdvdpro.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=26998

The last one is the coolest.....

DES: Segway owner....
it has a nice ring to it
Dont take a ride, take a G L I D E. . .

[fathertime]

The Following appeared in this morning's Daily Herald (Chicago)

Making progress
By Fernando Diaz
Daily Herald Staff Writer

Jim Reynolds saw the future four-and-a-half years ago without time
machines or flying cars.

On December 3, 2001, the owner of Father Time, a vintage clock
restoration
shop in Chicago, watched inventor Dean Kamen put “Ginger,” the Segway
Human Transporter, through its paces on Good Morning America. Ten
minutes later, he bought one.

“This was a device that was completely different from anything that
anybody had ever experienced,” Reynolds said. “We could actually grab
a piece of the future by jumping on this thing.”

The two-wheeled Segway HT allows people to glide while standing
on its platform at speeds reaching 12 mph for up to 10 miles on a
single charge.

“We still get looks everywhere,” while riding, said Reynolds, now
60.

He was the third owner in the Midwest of the device that brought
“dynamic stabilization” into the vernacular; his wife Chandra bought
the fifth one and in August they opened Segway of Chicago in LaGrange.

This weekend, they will present Segway’s Centaur Concept, an
all-terrain
vehicle with a minimalist aluminum chassis that looks like a wiry
four-wheeled spider, at Wired Magazine’s NextFest on Navy Pier.

Reynolds is one of the few lucky humans to have taken it for a spin.
“It’s fantastic,” he said, adding that Centaur packs the revolutionary
Segway technology into a faster, more dynamic vehicle. “It’s just
like being in a slingshot.”

The Centaur will join hundreds of other projects at NextFest culled
from the minds of academics, scientists and companies that are turning
science fiction into reality.

NextFest, now in its second year, showcases technological innovations
in seven categories: communication, design, entertainment, exploration,
health, security and transportation.

The “World’s Fair of the Future” grew from the tantalizing task
of covering emerging technologies at San Francisco’s Wired Magazine,
considered the “journal of record for the future,” and a desire to
expose those developments beyond its pages.

“We get to write about a lot of really interesting and cool stuff,
but unless we are the writers, we don’t get to see them,” said Adam
Rogers, a senior editor at the magazine.

Rogers is dying to see the Philip K. Dick robot, an android that
bears an eerie resemblance to the famed science fiction writer and
responds to commands through artificial intelligence software. It
draws, too, Rogers said.

Another must-see is the Innespace Sweet Virgin Angel, a mechanical
dolphin that seats two and “can shoot through the water, do barrel
rolls and jump out of the water,” Rogers said. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday,
event organizers have managed to close off a portion of the Chicago
River by the Michigan Avenue bridge for a live demonstration.

Other exhibits include a 21st-Century take on Pac-Man, the arcade
video game first introduced in 1980, that is now played in virtual
reality. There is also Optical Camouflage developed at the University
of Tokyo that can cloak its wearer in the world around him or her
by reflecting light through its material.

But many of the exhibits are more than fun and games.

The prosthetic C-Leg is already allowing amputees to reclaim some
mobility, iRobot’s Rumba vacuums are moving into homes via infomercials
and the company’s PackBot Scout, an 8-inch tall, 40-pound battle-bot
is currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan assisting soldiers.

Motorola’s exhibits will illustrate why typing is so last century
and why their in-house code for that ringing gizmo in your pocket
is “the device formerly known as the cell phone,” according to Jonathan
Ruff, senior business director with the chief technology office for
the Schaumburg-based company.

One exhibit features “finger writing on a handset,” while another
showcases the company’s concept of “liquid media.”

“Motorola sees that the whole communications infrastructure will
be IP-based,” Ruff said, referring to the Internet. Events at home
can trigger instant messages to your handset. “Mesh networking” will
allow for real-time access to information through a self-configuring,
deployable infrastructure and is already generating interest from
auto manufacturers, public safety institutions and state agencies.

“Seamless mobility is really an experience,” Ruff said, adding that
what started with Motorola’s first cellular phone 30 years ago has
mushroomed into a world of possibilities.

In the future, Ruff said, the company wants to develop the simplest
way of getting things done with your mobile remote control, tentatively
called Push2X. “A single button and it knows what you’re doing,
watching
and what you want to do, in one click.”

For now, many of the projects are years away or never destined for
the mall’s stockrooms. There are only two Centaurs in the world and
Segway won’t say whether it will ever reach consumers.

Reynolds is optimistic; “We think it’s very likely.”

Planet earth may never witness a working flying car, time machines
or space travel at the speed of light, but the exhibits show why it’s
worth trying.

JR

[pam]

Good article, Jim.
Pam

[wwhopper]

Something must be ticking with all the recent interest in Segways from the media.

Is it a slow newsday? Is it the fact that Segway users are now being seen more? Or is it that finally Segways are being used enough to make an impact on society?

We have been swamped by media requests here at DCSEG in the last month.

Will W Hopper
DCSEG Member
Come out to the Mid-Atlantic Regional SEG America Event - SegwayFest - DC Sept 23-25 in Washington DC - The Most Segway Friendly City in America!

[Stewbonz]

Same here. There is a definite buzz in the air about Segways lately.
The free press I get just not stop.
Several Travel and Business magazines intervewed me in the last few weeks from Thailand and China, Australia.
The Fashion Channel even ran a clip for a month or so.
Iv'e had reservations from Istanbul and Turkmenistan, say they saw me in the Asian Wall Street Journal with color pics!

I put some photos and some text on a CD and give it to travel writers. Turns out, they are a lazy bunch and usually just publish my "canned story." http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/youngjarvis/detail?.dir=7d3a&.dnm=cb7c.jpg&.src=ph

Our wall of fame, http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/youngjarvis/detail?.dir=7d3a&.dnm=39bf.jpg&.src=ph



JEFF JARVIS
http://www.thailandsegwaytours.com/

[snksegway]

Here are a couple of the articles that appeared in the Atlantic City Press in NJ about our process in starting to offer guided tours. We have been in the process for almost a year and we should have approval 6/21.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/cape/051905SEGWAYMAY19.cfm

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/cape/061405SEGWAYJUNE14.cfm

We should be listed in the guided tour site shortly.
Store's name is Glide In located in North Wildwood, NJ

[JohnM]

quote:Originally posted by wwhopper
Is it a slow newsday?

Schiavo's dead.
Deep Throat is revealed.
The run-away bride is back home.
Jackson's aquitted.
Tom popped the question to Katie.
Yep, there's nothing really important to write about.

JohnM
If riding 2 hours is fun, then riding 20 hours is 10 times more fun.
RUSA #235