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Rides Great Moments In The History Of The Segway

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The New York International Auto Show starts this Friday (April 10th), and GM and Segway are expected to unveil a collaborative project that is essentially a two-person sit-down version of the Segway, everyone’s favorite love-to-hate invention of the early 2000s. This new project, named P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is poised to take what’s left of the 45 year-old and paid software development set by storm.

Let us not forget the storied history of the Segway, though! These things are awesome, from Cops running down gunmen to Arrested Development’s Gob showing how an executive can make the lamest device in the world classy. Hit the jump for a brief history the Segway…

April 8, 2009 | Permalink | Comment
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Rides Toyota’s Winglet Takes Aim At Segway

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When the Segway was introduced back in ‘01, the New Hampshire based company swore their invention would revolutionize the way people get around. Inventor Dean Kamen even went on record saying the Segway will “be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.” Suffice to say, dude was buggin’.

Seven years later, less than 40,000 have been sold and people are still getting from point A to point B the same damn way. So it’s kinda surprising that the worlds largest automaker, Toyota, would even think of building a Segway competitor. But they did, and it’s called the Winglet

August 1, 2008 | Permalink | 1 Comment
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