Segway...The early years

budsiskos · 11-02-2009, 12:59 AM

i would most defiantly buy one, but this could be the future of wheel chairs. the theo jansen mechanism was ingeniously incorporated

Isidore · 11-02-2009, 08:55 AM

Scale it up about 4 times and watch it run across rough terrain!

gbrandwood · 11-02-2009, 08:59 AM

Wow - that is a freaky movement. Kind of reminds me about that film with Tom Selleck in it set in the future with loads of spider robots crawling around.

A clever product.

coaster · 11-02-2009, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by gbrandwood

Wow - that is a freaky movement. Kind of reminds me about that film with Tom Selleck in it set in the future with loads of spider robots crawling around.

It was called "Runaway".

Cheers
Phil

kylefeller1 · 11-02-2009, 05:52 PM

hey look at this, this must be what that thing is based on, oh and these are wind powered

Oct · 11-02-2009, 08:16 PM

That really is an amazing feat of engineering.

Pease1 · 11-03-2009, 07:02 PM

If they put 2 sets of legs front-to-back (think 4-legged configuration) it would be more stable. A couple of times they tipped over. Other than that it looks quite ingenious.

I wonder if you could use this for handicap mobility (can't really call it a wheel chair if it has no wheels). If you added some ability to modify the geometry of the legs to compensate for things like stairs and curbs you could really have something.

Bob.Kerns · 11-04-2009, 03:35 AM

The guy in red has the right idea -- it's not safe to stand on. You want to be sitting down when you stop suddenly and fall over on your face!

Oct · 11-04-2009, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob.Kerns

The guy in red has the right idea -- it's not safe to stand on. You want to be sitting down when you stop suddenly and fall over on your face!

Is that where George Bush went wrong on the Segway or was it just the after effects of the frontal lobotomy?

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budsiskos Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: riverside, mo Posts: 168	i would most defiantly buy one, but this could be the future of wheel chairs. the theo jansen mechanism was ingeniously incorporated

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kylefeller1 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: St. Louis missouri Posts: 88	hey look at this, this must be what that thing is based on, oh and these are wind powered

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Oct Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 20	That really is an amazing feat of engineering.

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Pease1 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lee, NH Posts: 20	If they put 2 sets of legs front-to-back (think 4-legged configuration) it would be more stable. A couple of times they tipped over. Other than that it looks quite ingenious. I wonder if you could use this for handicap mobility (can't really call it a wheel chair if it has no wheels). If you added some ability to modify the geometry of the legs to compensate for things like stairs and curbs you could really have something.

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