Segway Kills Company Owner

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Trip

grab the neck of it and shake it back and forth very quickly, doesn't have to be a lot of force behind it. This will fuck with the gyro's and the kid will get tossed.

And how do you know this

[Trip]

Originally Posted by tommymac

And how do you know this

I worked with a team that made a fully automated sentry segway for one of my college projects. It could detect explosives, radiation, facial recognition, and curse at people. It was fun to use the campus wifi to drive it around campus and berate people with it. It had a webcam/speaker/mic setup so we could drive it all over campus without leaving the lab.

I was also the test pilot for this system, because a person also had to be able to ride the segway with the system in place. We had to make the segway think someone was on it, but we also had to have a way to hit the pressure points manually so a person could take control of it. This led to a lot of testing and wrecking of it and a lot of bruises for me. I have gotten tossed from one more times than I can remember.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Trip

Apparently this guy wasn't the creator, he was some rich guy that bought the company.

Yeah, the inventor is Dean Kamen. Some of his earlier inventions were pretty great including the wheelchair from which the Segway got most of its technology. I think somewhere in the publicity runup for the Segway, when a lot of the most respected entrepreneurs were unabashedly sucking Kamen's dick with hyperbole to the effect that the Segway was the most important invention ever, would change the future of the world, and would be the fastest company in history to reach $1 billion in sales Kamen went over to the doucheside.

[Particle Man]

good to know

[goof2]

After thinking about it, Heselden may have offed himself over buying such a garbage company.