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Segway miniPRO — Hands-free, self-balancing transporter. Not a hoverboard.
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@rrhoover the fact that people call those things hover boards is the bane of my existence.
@rrhoover about $600 over priced from what it needs to be http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/...
@rrhoover oh.. so that's what they are.. i thought they were just normal Chinese fakes with sigway stickers on them.. ok these are already floating about in my province here in GZ, China.. same couple of guys riding them about on the streets all day and all night long.. interesting.. i haven't been game enough to try it out yet.. they offer everyone who stops them a go at it.. and almost everyone flys off flat on their face after two seconds.. funny as as they can stop and your body is at a 75% angle to the ground face first, and it speeds up and stops you from landing face first into the road!
@rrhoover love the developer focus on this. Interesting to see what can be done with this as a platform.
Wonder if these will just have the same fate as the hoverboards - seem to get banned everywhere except private property
I'm still to try one out ha
@bentossell It's kinda funny how Segways never really took off and then those sideways electric skateboards did (I'm not calling them hoverboards, don't try and make me), even though they're basically the same technology. I guess price, size, timing, play a big role.
enter the clone race - http://www.airwheel.cn/news/662 just started their crowdfunding with $850,000usd sold so far in first 20 days with 28 days left of this campaign. delivery in just 30days after funded ends like normal crowdfunded campaigns here in china... no year long waits etc like kickstarters & indigogo campaigns lols. price per unit with a helmet is $414usd
Just in case you were hoping to choreograph a dance on these, here is a somewhat strange promo video of people doing just that:
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