Segway debuts Jurassic Park-inspired mobile La-Z-Boy

N Y Post ^ | 01/03/2020 | Hannah Frishberg

[BenLurkin]

[Sirius Lee]

Popular with chineseses women in fuzzy slippers. “Get out of my way, filthy Cantonese servants!”

[Menehune56]

More Wall-e I think.

[Grimmy]

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?

[BipolarBob]

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.

[EEGator]

Adult diapers.

[vg0va3]

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

[piasa]

Well... it DOES look like a runaway rickshaw!

[DannyTN]

Awesome!

• What do you do if it rains?
• Can i get one with mud tires and flaps, so I can get my exercise in the park?
• Will it hold two?
• Does it recline?
• Does it have massage mode?
• Are they coming out with a couch model?

[pepsi_junkie]

The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen, had previously inveted a wheelchair that could climb stairs. I'm sure it was ridiculously expensive and impractically slow but really cool.

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.

[MrHead]

Wall-e was my first thought also.

[Williams]

It’s safe until it breaks and grandma tumbles down the stairs with a piece if machinery on her back.

[blueunicorn6]

All the lions in Africa are saying,

“Look at that.....humans on the half shell.”

[DakotaGator]

Where's the cup holder?!

[Buttons12]

Adult strollers. Not just for the Boardwalk anymore.
This could be popular on campuses.

[pepsi_junkie]

It's true that more complexity = more ways and opportunities for a system to fail. But then again grandma could roll backwards down a ramp too.

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.

[pepsi_junkie]

How’s that gizmo supposed to get me from the TV room to the toilet if it can’t fit through doors?

Plot twist: the toilet is part of the chair too!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Recliners traveling through airports and malls at 24 mph. What could possibly go wrong?

[Rad_J]

Nanu Nanu!

[Secret Agent Man]

It needs a clear dome over the front so it can double as a snowflake safe space.