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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 170.90-1.3%Nov 7 3:59 PM EST
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To: DWB who wrote (2499)1/12/2001 12:42:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (5) of 12231
 
Get IT Here

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That looks like the dinkum oil on Dean Kamen's new gadget. It's 20th century electromechanicals with some good ASIC control systems.

Basically a self-balancing electric-motor driven personal two-wheel wheelchair or scooter.

It looks like more fun than a serious city-changing device. People aren't going to sit on that thing while it struggles up stairs, even if it is at walking speed. A smart system could get up stairs pretty quickly actually!

But then it needs to be parked at the top.

I think it isn't going to make it in the real world. Certainly not when my GSRS [TM] is competing.

I'd guessed it would be some sort of continuation of his current work and that seems to be in keeping. Here is the SI stream discussing the Individual Transporter [IT].
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Objections - wet weather is unpleasant, slippery and a wet machine wouldn't be nice to sit in. Snow would make it hopeless. Battery life would be bad. Parking a problem. Traveling 20 km on it would not be fun. It would be heavy. It would be expensive [bicycles are cheap and can be made comfortable, with great big seats and do the same thing other than go up stairs. I think I'll be giving IT a miss.

Mqurice

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