Word: kamen
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...Dean Kamen's latest invention, the Segway "human transporter," seems to be an example of misguided utopianism [TECHNOLOGY, Dec. 10]. It's a neat gizmo, but is it truly necessary or beneficial? You don't drive from place to place when in a city. You park your car, perhaps use mass transit, then walk around. This limits congestion. Also, given the volume of inconsiderate drivers on the road nowadays, their bad traits are likely to be transferred to the nation's walkways if they choose to use the Segway to get around town. I'd rather experience the interaction...
...Segway vehicle is a great idea! If inventor Kamen's vision of cities free of automobile traffic comes true, won't this be a much better world? Less pollution from car emissions, fewer traffic jams. Imagine this in Bangkok! Maybe we should start thinking about providing parking lots for Segways right now. SUMMER KHOO Johor, Malaysia...
...better city. No, this isn't a pitch for Dean Kamen's Segway. New Yorkers are avid pedestrians and steel-nerved riders - a motorized scooter, methinks, offers them too little of either. But it is a pitch for the cities of the future Kamen dreams about - less cars, fresher air, more foot traffic and less sitting in midtown gridlock...
...better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns in its debut. He plans to add a V-8 engine and gigantic fins and market it as a "Cadillac" TALIBAN British racehorse with the bad name is snubbed by gamblers. The big beard slows it down, and it needs a Kalashnikov as a starting gun MARILYN MANSON Music's favorite...
...already been filled by taxis, subways, buses, bicycles and rollerblades. If the Segway were as cheap as bicycles and rollerblades, then its technological advantages and the fact that it’s self-powered might help, but at $3,000, it’s a tough sell. Kamen should be able to make a living selling the Segway to businesses and visionaries, but the product will never alter the urban landscape as much as Steve Jobs thinks it may. All the gyroscopes in the world can’t change that...