Segway I3???? Possibly!!

[jryan]

I found a site with a picture of what they claim the i3 might look like. Or more a computerized graphic!! Doubt this is it but it was interesting nonetheless!!!

http://www.toutsurlesegway.com/article.php3?id_article=269


Jeremy Ryan

[bvelke]

I found a site with a picture of what they claim the i3 will look like.
They don't claim that it is a i3. They ask rhetorically. The translation is:

"Discovered by chance on a Chinese site. Is this a prototype, is this the future Segway 3rd generation? Is this a view of an artist? Mystery ..."

The Chinese web site (http://news.xinhuanet.com/tech/2006-08/17/content_4971960.htm) roughly says above the image (courtesy of Google translate):

"Designed for people who can not walk - a walk-selfless"

...and...

"If the home is unable to walk or paralyzed patients, will be a painful thing. But here is a help such patients to stand up and running things, a similar Segway i2 and x2 for the walk."

..and below the image:

"When a patient stops to the above, the machine will automatically reinstate his Yaojuan and fixed the leg by two frame fixed. The succession of walking the fine balance of the Segway, to maintain a balance forward. This patient regain the joy of the streets."

Hurray! I've been looking for a way to reinstate my Yaojuan :) !

Seriously, "a similar Segway i2 and x2" suggests to me that it is yet another attempt at a clone.

The graphic is credited to beareyes.com which has what seems to be the page which started the whole thing here:
http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200608/16/20060816288.htm

and THAT page was apparently posted on August 16, 2006.

Maybe someone who knows Chinese can provide a better translation but I think that it is nothing....

-Bob

[Sharkie]

That image has been around since before the second generation Segways were around. I used to have a bookmark to a site that explained quite a bit about it. It is said to be a possible future design for paraplegics that allows them the benefits of an upright stance.

Jim

[quade]

Ya know, if you take the time to look at it, the design really doesn't make a lot of sense.

With the user strapped to the control shaft, there's not really a lot of opportunity to shift the center of gravity.

And, yeah, those wheels . . . not gonna happen.

[Stan671]

Actually, that is almost exactly the kind of wheels we saw on a foam prototype of a concept Segway showed a few people at the conclusion of the Florida SegwayFest in 2004.

The motor is in the platform with its gear meshing with the inside of a large gear that is the inside if the wheel. Or the motor is actually inside the wheel and/or part of the wheel.

There is an extensive thread here with pictures captured from the show "Made in America" with John Ratzenberger. I will try to search for it.

Here is a link to the thread: http://forums.segwaychat.com/showthread.php?t=9004

[quade]

Actually, that is almost exactly the kind of wheels we saw on a foam prototype of a concept Segway showed a few people at the conclusion of the Florida SegwayFest in 2004.http://forums.segwaychat.com/showthread.php?t=9004

Oh, no doubt they're "cool", but I think from a practical standpoint, the current wheels are "best" in that they're at least conceivably easily and cheaply produceable. The current design also leaves a bit of leeway for aftermarket, which would simply be out of the question with the other ones . . . at least for any price a "normal" person would consider.

[Tarkus]

That image has been around since before the second generation Segways were around. I used to have a bookmark to a site that explained quite a bit about it. It is said to be a possible future design for paraplegics that allows them the benefits of an upright stance.

Jim

I also saw the same exact pics on a "gimp" site about 2 years ago. It was pitched as a "proto" of a self-balancing standing wheelchair.

I also bookmarked the page but the page no longer exists.

Cyberspace is wild, things vanish then surface somewhere else with a different story !

Be Big,
Alan

[Sharkie]

I also saw the same exact pics on a "gimp" site about 2 years ago. It was pitched as a "proto" of a self-balancing standing wheelchair.

I also bookmarked the page but the page no longer exists.

Cyberspace is wild, things vanish then surface somewhere else with a different story !

Be Big,
Alan

Yep, that's exactly what I had it bookmarked as well. Perhaps I got the link from you. The link died a while back, so I deleted it.

Jim

[Timezkware Tim]

This looks to be a product of someone's imagination. They forgot the gears and motors, lol.

Tim

http://www.toutsurlesegway.com/IMG/jpg/image001-5.jpg