Word: scootering
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...heartbeat, hundreds of stories full of fevered theorizing gushed forth in the press. Ginger was a hydrogen-powered hovercraft. Or a magnetic antigravity device. Or, closer to the mark, a souped-up scooter. Even the reprobates at South Park got into the act, spoofing Ginger in a recent episode--the details of which, sadly, are unprintable in a family magazine...
...sidewalk issue is dicier. In order to ensure that Segways are permitted to move alongside pedestrians, Kamen's regulatory-affairs mavens will have to keep the machine from being classified either as a motor vehicle or as a scooter. At the federal level, the deal is done--though, for a while, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wanted to classify the Segway as a "powered industrial truck." Technically, final sidewalk authority rests with state and local governments. Kamen is betting, however, that the decision will be made not by lawmakers but "de facto, by what becomes standard practice...
...impact on the world every bit as large as the car and the personal computer. Visit TIME.com to see a 3-D model, then tell us what you think. Will this revolutionize the way we move around town, or is this just a very cool and very expensive scooter? Go to time.com/segway...
...cave these past few weeks—that means you, Osama—the invention, also called “IT,” had been kept secret for months up until yesterday’s televised unveiling. “IT” turned out to be a scooter. Whoo...
Sure, it’s a pretty damn cool scooter. IT’s creator, Dean Kamen, thinks it will one day be more popular than the car. More power to everyone if that’s the case (except, presumably, the car companies, who would in fact have less power). But even if we’re all riding IT around downtown in a few years, IT really wasn’t worth all of the advance press. The mystery that surrounded IT for a year attracted wild speculation from dorky nerds and nerdy dorks alike—people...