Hoverboards Are Illegal in NYC, Still Should Not Be Called Hoverboards
The 26th Precinct of the NYPD is here to crap on your futurist dreams and promote safe streets.
UK Bans Hoverboards But Seriously Stop Calling Them Hoverboards
British police reminded the public yesterday that it’s illegal to ride “one of these” in public. And by “one of these,” the fuzz means self-balancing scooters. That didn’t stop the press from calling the wheeled contraptions “hoverboards.” Ugh!
I'd Totally Have a Segway-Joust With Friends if I Won the Lottery, Too
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Sure, it's an ad—an ad for Washington's Lottery—but who wouldn't want to joust with a friend on a pair of Segways? Or play polo? Just let me know when you win the lottery, and I'll be there to help you spend it. [Creativity-Online via CrunchGear]
Here's a Better Looking, Less Awkward Segway
Segways are nerdy and awkward, there's no way around it. This solowheel, a "self balancing electric unicycle" is just as nerdy as a Segway but slightly less awkward. The Solowheel only weighs 20 pounds and comes in a relatively small package and is definitely no where near as unwieldy as a Segway. Plus, it doesn't…
The Glorious, Inevitable Tron Segway
A Segway i2 that's customized to fit into the Tron universe? Never before has personal transportation been so simultaneously geeky and inspired. This is the light cycle mall cops use on the Grid. And it was shockingly easy to make:
Helmets Are a Must For the 40km/hr Segway
How to make the Segway less dorky? If you're not Steve Wozniak; can't afford Colorware, or you're money-rich thanks to your city tours business, the only other way is to mod it with larger wheels for topspeeds of 40km/hr.
Five Fantastic Mods to Reboot Your Segway
Today's tragic news shouldn't keep you from enjoying your Segway. On the contrary, the most fitting tribute to deceased company owner Jimi Heselden is to bust out your revolutionary transportation device, and, well, change everything.
Segway Company Owner Dies After Driving Segway Off Cliff
Just like the countless innovators, explorers and fine people killed in a Frankensteinian way by their own inventions, the current owner of Segway—not Dean Kamen—died yesterday after he rode off a cliff and into a river in England.
Segway Concept Emboldens Mall Security With Aggressive Lines, Comfy Seats
Behold, today's dose of mall cop pornography.
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…
Want to Make Supercross Boring? Swap Out Dirt Bikes for Segways
What happens when you take a Segway to a supercross track? You make motocross far less exciting.
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!
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]
We Want to Work at Google
Any place where you can ride around on Segways and Pocket Bikes and still get to hang out with the freaks who used to play Magic near the computer lab in college and are now making more money than God is a place for us. Fun Mechanics (?? where are these site names coming from?) has a delightful photoset of all the…
