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Segway Scooter needs new innovations

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Segway Scooter Needs New Innovations Update because despite all the fuss, it lacks the latest and greatest technological advances and doesn’t impress everyone. The Segway team? Come on, get the latest technology, will you? Regarding this idea:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp?cp1=1

These guys are brilliant, to be sure, but we could instantly send them back to the drawing board for limiting their ideas. Let’s start with its most basic component, namely “The Wheel” is an old component and if you want to build something revolutionary, build it without wheels and without touching the ground and without recharging. It can be designed better. Here is how. Take Bruce DePalma’s perpetual motion machine to generate power, so by adding such a feature you wouldn’t need to recharge and without the wheels you could move more weight faster with less power. As you say? Well, first of all, use hydro-damped technology like that used in hovercrafts. And think that you only want to move a human body of which we are talking about an average of 250 Lbs. To do this and keep the air underneath, place a small brush guard system under the device where it sits. Then blow 1-2 lbs. of low pressure air below it. It takes almost no energy to lift 250 pounds or less. This will lift the thing off the ground.

So instead of wheels, the thing is magical and floats, much better and more advanced too. Now place 18 small jets that move the air in the desired direction of travel up to the gyroscope or small circuit board which is a miniature ring laser gyroscope to keep it from falling over as you steer it by changing your weight. When you rotate by moving your body weight, the currency jets move you back and forth while the gyroscope moves them simultaneously. The system will prevent you from rolling over like the system on an F-16 that prevents pilots from turning too many G’s so the plane doesn’t take off or the pilot passes out. Now you have a floating mobile with a gyroscope, it works exactly the same and does not need fuel. Just like going back to the future, huh? It works physically. I once knew the guy who built the first hydraulically-sprung car, it looked like a little flying saucer, I used to drive it in Los Angeles on the 101 freeway in the 1960s. He was paranoid that the establishment had gone after him because of his run-in with the large companies, General Motors and the automotive industry. I met him at Denny’s in Woodland Hills, CA in 1996. His technology now moves 100,000 Lb. pallets with aircraft fuelalages on them during the production run in Everette WA. He also designed the hydro-cushioned bullet train which was never built, but was a project to bring people to Las Vegas from Los Angeles on a high-speed train, which would prevent the trains from touching the ground. No friction means little energy lost.

Someone should challenge the Segway team to keep innovating and not disrupt consumers. The unit needs to keep up with the tech trend to be the best, frankly it’s still not good enough and that’s a lot of venture capital to pay for yesterday’s tech even at $5,000 each. Am I too hard on this wonderful invention? Oh, probably, but if the manufacturers aren’t out to win and don’t try, then maybe we can help. We should challenge these guys, so they can build it better. Considering the wonderful publicity they’ve received, including the US President trying one out, why can’t they be inspired to take this technology to the next level? After all, this is 2003, for God’s sake. Also, by adding my upgrades, it could also be used in water. It could cross a lake, rescue a sinking boat, it has thousands of other uses, you could even sweep your driveway with it. Or build a robotic one that hovers and sweeps for you?

I don’t want to be so critical, but if you have that kind of money to spend on venture capital, why can’t you build a better mousetrap?

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