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Eventually they'll get so big it'll just tip over.
And so, due to rising costs of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor's finest accountants spoke to the Demigurg. A deal was forged in blood and extensive paperwork for a sub-prime mortgage with a 5/1 ARM on the Imperial Palace. And lo, in the following years the housing market did tumble and the rate skyrocketed leaving the Emperor's coffers bare. A dark time has begun for the Imperium, the tithes can not keep up with the balloon payments and the Imperial Palace and its contents, including the Golden Throne, have fallen into foreclosure. With an impending auction on the horizon mankind holds its breath as it waits to see who will gain possession of the corpse-god and thus, the fate of humanity......
I'm having a hard time placing a use on this thing. It's not fast enough to replace a bike or a skateboard. Using it isn't as good as walking most of the time. The technology might be nice for making less bulky wheelchairs or something, and the wheel design is pretty neat.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
I've seen this I think its a prototype. If this could some how force you to put some effort into the balancing act like sitting on one of those inflatable balls to work your abs I would get one. As it stands the seat is too small for the kind of people who would use it. There is no storage capacity. Looks insanley unsafe for kids. I don't think it'll take off.
Put that awesome wheel on forklifts. My god... that would be sweet!
I can see the wheel developing into something that could work with a lot of vehicles. This current concept is stupid though. It's like a MORE slowed segway...
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
That sort of thing will never be popular with the overweight crowd. It would be expensive. And why pay money when the grocery stores (at least the ones here) have electric carts with big baskets on them, so they can buy more food to keep getting overweight.
Grocery shoppin with that lil thing would require carrying the food- which would be like work. I doubt its strong enough to push a shopping cart
Mistress of minis wrote:That sort of thing will never be popular with the overweight crowd.
I can imagine there being problems for people above a certain weight with it becoming a suppository as well... Perhaps its streamlined design was envisioned for this purpose from the start? :O
What's this? A new challenger has arrived to fight old basket face?
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▐ Look he's smiling at the thought of ripping it to pieces and he's red so he'll do better in combat.
SilverMK2 wrote:Also, this makes me think the future holds large numbers of the fat people in hover beds from Wall-E
Don't worry, I'll tip them over; but not help them up. They get exercise that way
Soladrin wrote:WHeels in wheels? WIN now use this for a proper transportation device, not a fancy ass cushion.
They've been around for a while now. The problem is that they have generally been a bit too complex and delicate to put onto anything cool (like an APC or light tank - circle strafing tanks would be cool ). For something sedate like a scooter/thing they are fine.
Mistress of minis wrote:That sort of thing will never be popular with the overweight crowd.
I can imagine there being problems for people above a certain weight with it becoming a suppository as well... Perhaps its streamlined design was envisioned for this purpose from the start? :O
So...if we see some rotund individuals scooting around while sitting on thier ass- the mystery will be solved
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They've done it! Honda has done it! Some people said it couldn't be done, it was a hopeless pie in the sky dream.
They've made something that looks goofier than the Segway. I mean Segways really rocked the house in goofiness, completely outgoofing the scooter. Experts laughed when Honda set out to build a personal conveyance that outdid the good ol' American Segway. Japan can't compete with the US in transportation technology they said. But they said the same thing when the Segway tried to one-up the European companies and their tried and true scooter technology.
This is the future in fun, but makes you feel like an idiot because everyone thinks it looks incredibly gay, to ride technology.
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