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Megway - New Competition For The Segway
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timothy
on Sun May 09, 2004 12:31 PM
from the oh-lighten-up-mr-serious dept.
from the oh-lighten-up-mr-serious dept.
mikep.maine writes "The personal mobility market is heating up. Witness this practical device featured by
Megway. I already have one, but it isn't cheap." Check Yahoo! personals for availability.
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First post? (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.sigkill.dk/)
Re:First post? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.windwavesandsun.com/)
It amounts to a $300 bike with a built in $700 electric motor assist.
The motor gets me up hills, and up to speed quickly so that I spend most of my 40 minute commute at the top speed of 19 MPH.
I look forward to the commute - and I look forward to pissing off the SUV commuters wanting to pass on a two lane xero shoulder road.
Highly recommended - plus I'm losing weight!
AIK
Re:First post? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.windwavesandsun.com/)
Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)
If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle
This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.
If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.
Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.
So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.
So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).
AIK
The SegWay never lived up (Score:1)
Hey (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hey (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Friday November 18 2005, @06:15PM)
And while he's out riding his Segway, the pool boy is riding his wife.
name change imminent (Score:1, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Of course, there are 2 comments and the site is
and there it is (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Also, as a long-time reader of
Re:and there it is (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted Already?! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.morphinenation.com/)
Aww (Score:2)
Megway? Segway? (Score:2, Funny)
Ark1!!! (Score:1)
(http://snowulf.com/)
Regardless, this should be intresting. One has to wonder how this will effect the laws. Some places like San Francisco banned segways and related, but if they begin to get more popular... Things may change.
And honestly, I have only seen one segway IRL.
Very Timely (Score:1)
(http://www.packetoverload.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 15 2004, @08:19AM)
Mine is a suziway (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday December 21 2003, @12:10PM)
nice go Megway!
It's slashdotted already (Score:5, Informative)
Isn't it a bit late for April 1st?
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
(http://web.mac.com/zav | Last Journal: Wednesday May 28 2003, @04:24PM)
And can we order hotter models?
Mirror of Quicktime video (Score:4, Informative)
spoof? (Score:2)
(http://eridanus.net/ | Last Journal: Monday September 15 2003, @07:39AM)
Text:
A wonderful spoof of the Segway (nee "ginger") well worth the bits its printed on. The Megway runs on water , folds for easy transport and storage, and sports a "20 petaflop bioelectrical computer," "Opposable Digits Technology," and "HOT RACING ACTION (action, action, action...)!!!" Also be sure to catch the groovy Megway movie.
But Segway is fighting back (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.smalltownmisfit.com/)
tcd004
RTFA (Score:3, Informative)
BUT It's a JOKE! and an old one at that!
How can you laugh if you haven't bothered to even look at the pretty pictures?
How to render the Segway obsolete... (Score:5, Funny)
Segway and Megway make me cry.... (Score:1)
What a stupid thing... (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Wednesday March 10 2004, @02:56PM)
Megway. Bigger than Jesus. (Score:5, Informative)
Yahoo! Personals? (Score:3, Funny)
it's a spoof (Score:2)
Very funny.
'say you can walk somewhere in 20 mins, well with the megway you'll get there in 18 and a half, 19 mins tops'.
mirror of the movie (Score:2, Informative)
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.moviepig.com/)
The one with a breathalyzer: Kegway
The overpriced one: Begway
The one that always craps out: Legway
The official one: Regway
The souped-up red one: Nutmegway
Segway: cool engineering, lousy idea (Score:2)
While the segway is a really neat idea, an electric bicycle would be much more senisble.
See, even when you're standing still, the segway has to burn energy just to keep you upright. Same thing when you're "coasting" down a hill.
This means that the design of a device like the segway is going to be fundamentally energy inefficient compared to a electric bicycle/motorcycle.
Just something interesting I though I'd bring up, since we can't RTFA anyways.
Does anybody know of any electric bikes that even beging to approach the coolness factor of a segway?
Re:Segway: cool engineering, lousy idea (Score:4, Informative)
Timewarp? (Score:1)
(http://acm.csres.utexas.edu/)
What's up the really old posts guys?
So old (Score:2)
(http://www.mobiletracker.net/)
Uh, this joke is AT LEAST TWO YEARS OLD? (Score:5, Informative)
If there's one thing that I can't stand... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday May 05 2003, @02:06AM)
Electric scooters? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yes, they have lots of, well, as far as I can see unnecessary technology in them, have their wheels side by side which means they require all that extra technology just to function and are therefore ridiculously expensive.
The scooters are lighter, faster, have longer range and only cost a couple of hundred quid rather than thousands.
Up, up, and... (Score:1)
How about feet, for personal mobility? (Score:2)
READ THE THING (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.grantgorilla.com/)
So what's the point? To make people look even more stupid that they do on a segway?
to the tremendous hype that was built around it. There was one good fallout from all the hype though. People started to think of alternatives. That I believe is the true value of the Segway and now the "MegWay"
If Lindows lost to MS, then Megway is certainly going to be sued by (and lose to) the Segway guys.
It's very similar to the Segway, certainly in the same market, and it's name only differs by one letter. Surely Segway's lawyers won't be happy.
Did anyone even read the article? Newsflash (with annoying scolling subtitle): Its a spoof.
another tired dupe (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Can we have a subject category for irrelevant, boring dupes?
I forsee a problem... (Score:1)
What the... (Score:3, Insightful)
old news (Score:3, Informative)
(http://anime.polyhead.net/)
Waiting for the Meg Ryan model (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Friday May 26 2006, @09:37PM)
Other Megway Features (Score:2)
You need to be succesful to have competition... (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Seems their goal (Segway) of having the taxpayers buy up their production via Government purchases didn't materialize. They knew they had no real commercial viability, hence all the attempts to get large government organizations to test it out in hopes of getting a buyer.
My favorite were the lard ass Atlanta cops that tried it, trouble was they were too clutzy to operate it.
Segway, a product that looked neat but had no market yet was hyped to all heck and back. Just another feature of the dot-com craze.
As for Megway/Smegway... its a joke... rta
I hope it works (Score:2)
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gap between 1st and 3rd world is widening. (Score:2)
I think... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://home.zonnet.nl/hardwareogg/)
...that I'll stick with LegWay, thanks.
Already competition for the segway (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Megway is to Segway... (Score:2)
(http://trypticon.org/)
as Lindows is to Windows.
And didn't Microsoft make Lindows change their name? Couldn't Segway make Megway change its name?
Ridiculous (Score:2)
The existence of these personal mobility devices is assinine.
Stop eating. Take a walk. Burn a few calories.
Steve
note to all about slashdotting... (Score:2)
OT I know
This is OLD! Mine is better (Score:2)
Naturally the name for this mode of transporation came from my name as well; the Gregway.
To give you an idea of how old the Megway is, we have moved twice since then and my daughter is now MUCH too big to do a standing-up piggy back ride.
segway (Score:1)
Re:Trademark? (Score:1)
You obviously never followed the link (but don't let that stop you from making comments like these). This was a UserFriendly Llink of the Day a looong time ago (around the time the Segway was released).
Re:*checks date* (Score:2, Informative)
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