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...still do a lot and keep my lifestyle." The other thing I am trying to do - back to the laziness aspect - convenience is the real killer. If you want anything to happen, you have to make it easy. I'm hoping the takeaway on the site is this positive "Wow, I've seen this green that is here now and I can change my life in a green direction, whether it's transportation, fashion, housing, etc." A lot of environmentalism has been doom and gloom, negative, inspired by fear. We are trying to be positive: 80% of of the stuff...
...mass market. And indeed, Segway is beginning to do something like that. It has developed heavy duty carriers called Robotic Mobility Platforms that it is pitching to the military. It will also be putting its Smart Motion technology in robotic toys it is developing with the toymaker Wow...
...these machines to test it in two villages, 75 kilometers apart, last year in Bangladesh. And I thought, "Wow, it's going to run on cow dung, there will be all sorts of issues. We'll send engineers, and if we can get any data..." Any data? Those machines ran flawlessly around the clock. Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into...
...drives to work at Yatala, on Brisbane's southern edge, he rides high-and not just because of his vehicle's 37-in. wheels. He enjoys the double-takes people give his khaki and brown car-or-truck-or-is-it-a-tank: "They'll come up and say, Wow, that's awesome," says Watson. But the biggest lift comes from driving something that once existed only in his imagination: "To drive it down the road and think, 'We built this'-that's a real buzz...
...They see singers, male or female, just dancing, living the high life, and that's not them," Kherigi explains. "Or they see some clip of Bin Laden preaching to them and speaking in an extreme way that doesn't represent them either. When they see Sami, they are saying, 'Wow. Finally, someone is on TV doing something that kind of resembles my life...