We Didn't Know Zoltar Drove a Segway!

We've used enough questionable substances to make the specific timeline of the last 20 years is a bit sketchy. But we're pretty sure Big came out before the Segway. More »

Steve Wozniak, Segway Polo Pioneer, Aims for the Goal

Here's a photo of Apple Employee #1, Steve Wozniak, as he plays for the Silicon Valley Aftershocks during the Segway Polo World Championships. Woz is one of the most prominent players of this silly and endearing sport. [Christian Science Monitor]

Best Buy Testing New Section For Electric Scooters, Segways

Best Buy has started a 19-store trial of a new section for electric scooters, assisted bikes and Segways. The new business plan, in full: lure customers in with below-wholesale CDs, then pitch them to buy multi-thousand-dollar personal transportation devices favored by eccentric billionaires and mall cops. Though to their credit, this line from on of their execs about the section's business prospects is pretty funny: More »

Light Saber Jousting With Segways

Vice TV, going where no other news outlets dare: This time, it's Segway instruction from an NYC weirdo named Itsy, then stage combat light saber lessons with the NYC Jedi Academy in Brooklyn. Then, fight! More »

Legway: A Pedal-Powered Steampunk Segway

Steampunk is tired—and you will be too if you build the Legway. There's no electric motor to whisk you to a destination—only pedal-power. That means you actually have to exercise. More »

This is How the Segway/GM PUMA Pod Flies Down the Street

Jalopnik has a clip from the Today Show demonstrating how the GM/Segway PUMA pod rolls about. And just like with the Batpod, Meredith Viera takes the sexy honors of a sexy first ride. More »

Chanel Segway is Pretty Much Inexcusable

Look, I know that Segways can be used for good and not evil, but a Segway decked out with Chanel branding? Well, that just takes away any excuse you could have had for Segway ownership. More »

Reader Email: Why We Should Stop Picking on Segway

Dean Kamen is brilliant, but I've always felt Segways were kinda for lazy people. Well, I did think that, until I got this email from Allen, a segway using reader with a disability. Doh! More »

Prince on a Segway T-Shirt Combines Two Good Things to Make a Great Thing

Nothing makes a Segway cooler than giving it motorcycle handlebars and sticking Prince on it. Perhaps you can get some of that coolness rubbed off by sticking this shirt on you. [Product Page via NerdApproved]

Segway Shirt Clarifies Just How You 'Roll'

In case your obnoxious Segway weren't clarification enough, this Segway shirt reading "that's how I roll" should set things straight. Donning Dean Kamen's matching denim pants/denim shirt combo also works. [ExBoyfriend via ShinyShiny]

Four Segways Enter, Three Segways Leave (One Faceplants)

There's nothing more you have to do than point and laugh at this poor woman and her Segway. You would have thought the other woman would be the one to eat it, karmically speaking. [BBG]

Dean Kamen Struggles With the Idea of Giving Up on the Segway

A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out. More »

Segway Office Skiing Looks Like a Fun, Potential Lawsuit Source

At last, a really useful application for the Segway: Office skiing. Just attach a cable and go. It needs a homemade hoverboard for maximum speed and broken bones, but hopefully that will come soon. [Crunchgear]

Japanese Scientists Miss The Point, Design Self-Stabilizing Electric Bike

OK, I'll admit that this self-stabilizing bike is clever: it's kind of a Segway turned sideways, using gyros to detect if it's off-balancing, and adjusting the steering automagically to compensate. It's also a standard electric bike, so it propels you along without needing any annoying foot-power: very 21st Century indeed. More »

Chimpanzee Rides Segway in Daring Escape, Crashes in Woods

Chimpanzees doing anything is funny. But a chimp named Pan-kun tear-assing into the woods on a Segway? Now that is comedy. And don't worry, he managed to survive the ordeal unscathed. My guess was that he was willing to take a risk or two in a daring attempt to escape his captors and the endless humiliation of Japanese television. [Japan Probe via Neatorama]

DIY Mini-Segway Shows Dean Kamen Isn't All That Clever

OK, OK... so Dean Kamen actually dreamed up the Segway in the first place and other amazing things, so he's pretty clever. But then so is the guy who's put together this Arduway out of an Arduino controller board and some Lego Mindstorms motors. It senses its position with a gyro, and balances pretty much like the real thing, only smaller. Maybe good for giving your pet mouse some 21st Century transport? If you're impressed and want to try it out then there's a DIY guide and the software available. Clever stuff. [Project page via Hackaday]

Congrats: Woz Married at SegwayFesT 2008 to Someone Who Is Not Kathy Griffin

Woz's devotion to the Segway is well-documented, so it's no surprise he'd blend love and Segway into a frothy mix of...something. Woz got married over the weekend at SegwayFesT 2008—to someone who is not Kathy Griffin. I think a double congratulations is in order! Oh, and today is his 58th birthday. Congrats and happy birthday, Woz! [TUAW]

Toyota Winglet Sport Feels Like Inline Skates for Klutzs Like Me

Yesterday we saw in action the Large and Medium models of the Segway-killer Toyota Winglet. Here you have the Type S, which stands for small but, according to Toyota, could also mean Sports. Looking at the video, it makes sense: basically, this thing seems to allow for faster, more agressive driving, achieving a behavior similar to inline skates. Someone should boost their engines speed as soon as they arrive. [Toyota]

Police Officer Makes Drunk Driving Arrest On His Segway

You would have thought that the only way a police officer could have made a drunk driving arrest on a Segway was if the car jumped onto the sidewalk and slammed into one. However, an officer actually managed to chase down a drunken 18-year-old woman in a not-so-hot pursuit down the streets of Jackson, Michigan recently. More »

Segway Crash Test is Awkward For All Parties Involved

Some agency not called the National Pedestrian Walkway and Novelty Tour Commission apparently ran the Segway though a battery of crash tests, dummies and all. I'm sure that by now many people have experienced something resembling this test, so it was probably wise to run the Seg into a few things to make sure it wouldn't kill anyone. As expected, the effect is almost identical to a tall man sprinting into another, face first. An alternative back story for this video: It's a performance art piece entitled "Dude, You Kissed My Eyeball." [YouTube]

Man Uses Wii Balance Board to Move A Robot, Plans to Move People Too

Juan González has hacked together a simple setup that lets his Wii Balance board move a small, irritating robot in any direction. This looks like the first robotic pairing for the board, which has to date has only been interfaced with computers as a control device to awkwardly navigate games and mapping applications. It's pretty clear that González is excited about this hack (watch the end of the video), but he isn't done yet- next up is is a Balance Board-based "robo-surfboard." More »

How To: Woz's Segway Polo Tutorial

Segways and Polo. Those two cups of tea are not really my bag, or whatever. But Woz's videos on how to play Segway Polo are an interesting look at the rule book. You can't ram or shove others, or run your Segway into the goal like those cheating bastards in Super Mario Strikers. (You know who you are.) More »

Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Makes Cameo at CES

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Woz Wants YOU to Play Segway Polo

We tuned in for Woz's grand Segway polo match today. Aside from the simultaneously eerie and warm feeling we got from Steve Wozniak's shirt bearing a striking resemblance to our old high school's band booster wear, we weren't able to enjoy much of the very short broadcast of the match. In fact, we have no idea who won, cried, made out with Kathy Griffen or anything. More »

Woz's Online Segway Polo Match to Rival Super Bowl's Hype, Viewership

Get ready for an event of epically nerdy proportions. It's a Segway polo match… being broadcast live on the internet… featuring Woz. The only way this thing could get more nerdy would be if they took a Dungeons and Dragons break at halftime. Oh, and if instead of drinking Gatorade were breastfed by their mothers. Mark your calendars and place your bets! The sporting event of the century goes down on Sunday, December 16 at 1 p.m. EST! [The Digital Lifestyle]

PAM Lifting Vehicle: Yet Another Segway-like Flying Deathtrap

If you didn't get enough of the Vertipod from last month, another Segway-like flying vehicle called PAM has shown up on the radar —literally. Like the Vertipod, a simple shifting of the weight points the PAM in the appropriate direction. So, in theory, it should be simple to operate (so why do you need a pilot's license?). More info after the jump. More »

'Segway of the Sky' Tops My Christmas Wish List

Yes, the Segway is lame. But then, the Segway can't fly. If it could, I wouldn't judge its owners so harshly. Say hello to the VertiPod, which is basically just that. You stand on it and steer it around, and by leaning in one direction or another it'll point you in that direction. It all sounds terribly dangerous, and I want one. More »

Segway Mods Taking Over the Dweeb World

We had no idea Segways were being modded even more than PCs. Of course, you can put crazy, gigantic wheels on the thing, but you can also add all kinds of containers to carry stuff, pull a trailer with it, gold plate it, turn it into a rickshaw, and of course, it wouldn't be an American invention without plenty of room for advertising. Take a look at Segway Junkyard for even more outrageousness. [Segway Junkyard] More »

iSlide is a Segway/Skateboard Combo Concept

We all know that Segways are far from cool, but skateboards generally do meet the requirements for things that we'd be seen on in public. What happens if you combine the two? You get the iSlide concept, a weird-looking skateboard loaded up with fuel cells and the balancing mechanism of a Segway. You'll need at least some balance to ride it, but it does sound like fun. I'm still not sold on how cool it'll make you look, but as long as photos of Woz playing polo on it don't come out, it should stay at least a few steps above the original Segway if it ever officially comes out. [GizMag via Boing Boing Gadgets]