Posted on 01/04/2020 10:04:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
he traveling chair is intended for use in “enclosed campuses such as airports, theme parks and malls,” according to a press release. Gizmodo notes the wheelchair — which is being marketed to able-bodied individuals — also looks quite a bit like an adult stroller. Still, Segway insists the tech is “game-changing” in the field of personal transport.
A navigation panel controls the ambulant seat, the speed of which is adjusted through a knob, which changes the pod’s center of gravity. “The rider does not need to physically lean forward and back to accelerate or slow down,” Segway says, noting the max speed is 24 mph. It’s one of a number of anti-tip strategies incorporated into the pod.
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Popular with chineseses women in fuzzy slippers. “Get out of my way, filthy Cantonese servants!”
Bad design.
Can’t fit through standard doors.
How’s that gizmo supposed to get me from the TV room to the toilet if it can’t fit through doors?
Idiots!! #1 That’s not a gyrosphere and #2 and most importantly an Indominus Rex would just reach down and eat you in one bite. This is a liability waiting to happen.
Adult diapers.
I imagine the scene at ATL will be something like the Hindenburg Disaster Broadcast:
Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It’s burning and bursting into flames, and the—and it’s crashing into everyone and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.
It’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It’s smoke, and it’s flames now ... and the frame is crashing all around. Oh, the humanity
Well... it DOES look like a runaway rickshaw!
He's obsessed with gyroscopes. Gyroscopes work on the principle that they detect small deflections in position in any of the three axes (Left to right, Forward to back, or verical) and the system automatically triggers motors to correct that back to whatever position you want the system to stay in. So you can put a person in a chair and have it, for example, climb stairs and use gyros to make sure the person remains in a proper safe sitting position at all times.
It's old technology but Kamen has done some interesting things with it.
Wall-e was my first thought also.
It’s safe until it breaks and grandma tumbles down the stairs with a piece if machinery on her back.
All the lions in Africa are saying,
“Look at that.....humans on the half shell.”
Adult strollers. Not just for the Boardwalk anymore.
This could be popular on campuses.
Anyway the stairs thing looks like mostly a gimmick though and all the examples I've seen have a person leading the chair pulling it to stabilize it. It's not autonomous. The real use case is allowing it to safely go over uneven ground, curbs (one small stair, essentially) and elevate to eye level of standing people.
Plot twist: the toilet is part of the chair too!
Recliners traveling through airports and malls at 24 mph. What could possibly go wrong?
Nanu Nanu!
It needs a clear dome over the front so it can double as a snowflake safe space.
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