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Just what my fat ass needs, another reason to sit down. My ass is big enough already. No thanks, I’ll take the stairs.
I am sure that someone can Hummer-ize it enough to make it appealing to fat lazy Americans. Just use a big low pressure knobby tire, a metal chassis with a Caterpillar paint scheme and some big bore 8 cylinder sound effects. Yeehaw!
Of course there was a study that came out recently implicating sitting with a whole range of health issues, since humans aren’t actually evolved for extended sitting.
I’m considering changing some of my habits at work to see if I can sit as little as possible.
It’s the SegStool!
Almost as good as legs.
I do love this sort of thing from a technical perspective. Innovation is progress (most of the time).
Groovy! A vibrator on wheels. “Vibeway”? “Segrator”?
Forget the sitting, riding, balancing, lazy-enhancing technology. The most exciting part of that video for me was the omnidirectional wheel technology. Just thinking about the potential applications of that make me giddy.
Interesting, isn’t it, the number of people who jump to the Lazyness Excuse for denigrating the idea. It’s the same lame thinking that leads them to point to the Segway and accuse the riders of having the deadly sin of sloth all over them.
But if you told those same folks you could give them a machine that would AMPLIFY THEIR LEGS, they’d glow forever.
Both of these ideas are amplifiers. This one works to expand your seated moments, the Seg works to amplify your standing moments.
I was zipping along on a Segway when a man seated at the controls of his full-size Hummer rounded a corner and shouted “Lazy!” at me.
Needless to say, the infinite irony of the moment was completely lost on him.
Later that week I met a man permanently on crutches and let him ride the thing. A huge epiphany for him. Suddenly he realized his mobility was not as lost as he had thought.
What’s worse, being inappropriately called lazy simply because your chair or welcome mat can move under power, or actually harboring phenomenally lazy thought processes?
Wow, when will my car be able to drive like this…. This would be great for CES because it is a long way to the Circle Bar….
Nice toy.
Will never be anything other than that.
People with mobility issues that cannot stand without assistance and/or lean easily would have no use for it as a wheelchair. Even Hoveround is not fully functional for all mobility products.
The fact is going to have to be realised that humans need to find an organic solution to the situation not an inorganic one.
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Man, you guys are missing the big picture.
Self-balancing technology this advanced (or at least, at this prototype level) is the first key step towards having AWESOME WALKING BATTLE TANKS!!!
Today its a crappy little unicycle. Tomorrow it’s a 100 ton nuclear equipped death machine.
The future is now!
She’d be much happier riding me. (Said the horse)
What they’re not telling you is, if you pass air you go flying into a wall.
But it’s a feature!
NEW meaning to the NAME..
CROUCH ROCKET..
The US version has 8 wheels and a hoist.
I wonder if they throw in any Preparation H for people who sit on it all the time?
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And one company stopped trying to make this one..
Did anyone else think how could that would be for sex
It’s very very misleading. Those two ladies are way too anorexic for those machines.
I would like to see how that thing would fair with a 350 lbs Bubba from Alabama on it. More importantly, will it blend?