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The Daily Slash: September 27th 2010

Evan Selleck, Sep 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

We're at the start of another week, and it's already seen a huge announcement. Let's see if the rest of the week can keep up with the momentum put out today. In news from around the Web, Segway's boss passed away today. After that, we'll take a look around the R3 Media Network, and see what's been happening. Welcome to the Monday edition of The Daily Slash. Read The Full Story

Ewee-PT Takes the Glamor Out of the Segway

Evan Selleck, Jul 29th 2010 Discuss [1]

If you've wanted a Segway, but thought it looked too "flashy" for you, then here's what you've been waiting for. It's the "little sister" of the Segway, and you should take that title to heart. Because, as you can see from the image, there isn't much here that actually looks like a Segway. Other than that curved middle-section and handlebars, it's missing that familiar over-sized base, plus all the plastic you'd want to show off. Read The Full Story

ColorWare Paints Segways Now

Evan Selleck, Jun 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

ColorWare is pretty notorious for doing custom paint jobs for your favorite gadgets. iPads and mobile phones, things like that. They were well known for their color-throwing ways, but notorious for the price tags that went along with it. And when they added HDTVs to their list of things that could be colored, eyebrows were raised. But now, well, we're speechless. Read The Full Story

High-Tech skateboard is a combination of Segway and normal skateboard

Shane McGlaun, Apr 5th 2010 Discuss [1]

I remember watching one of the Back to the Future sequels when I was a kid. When Michael J. Fox road that hover board around the town square I figured that by time I was "grown up" we would all be riding those things. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: March 25th 2010

Evan Selleck, Mar 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

Welcome to another edition of The Daily Slash, ladies and gentlemen. We're glad you could make it. It's just not the same without you, truth be told. We've got a strong batch of stories for you tonight. A bit of flashy gold goodness, some technological ridiculousness, and some deep space science that may just surprise you. And, as always, we've got it all bundled up for you in a nice, gift-wrapped package. Read The Full Story

GoPet personal electric scooter is extra geeky

Shane McGlaun, Aug 26th 2009 Discuss [1]

Every time I go to the mall, I get a chuckle out of the portly security guard that rides around on his Segway. I am pretty sure they based Paul Blart: Mall Cop on the guy. I will admit that the Segway is pretty cool, even if it is uber geeky. Read The Full Story

Segway P.U.M.A. Project

Chris Davies, Apr 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

Segway and GM have partnered to develop the P.U.M.A., a self-balancing individual vehicle in which the two riders have some degree of weather protection. The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) Project can travel up to 35mph, run 35 miles from one charge, and uses vehicle-to-vehicle communications to avoid collisions. Read The Full Story

Cajun Crawler: Segway concept gets legs

Chris Davies, Mar 16th 2009 Discuss [2]

We saw a DIY Segway all the way back in August 2007, but it's taken a little longer for wheels to evolve into legs. The Cajun Crawler was built by a team at the University of Louisiana, with the platform design of a Segway but moving on legs rather than a pair of self-balancing wheels. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Segway inventor creates ‘Net Zero Energy’ LED island

Chris Davies, Dec 5th 2008 Discuss [2]

Segway inventor Dean Kamen is turning his three-acre island home, the regrettably-named North Dumpling, into the first "net zero energy" island. With no mainland electricity connection, the entire island uses solar power; Kamen has brought in Philips Color Kinetics to replace all lighting with LEDs. Kamen has also fitted energy efficient appliances and water purification systems, some of which he invented himself. Read The Full Story

Self-Balancing DIY Robot: video demo

Chris Davies, Nov 4th 2008 Discuss [0]

Two-wheels good, more-wheels bad. That's the principle behind this self-balancing DIY robot, which uses similar principles to the Segway to scuttle about the room. The work of Italian programmer Nicola, the robot is based on an Arduino mainboard and gyros, together with a couple of motors capable of feeding back their position. Video demos of the self-balancing robot after the cut Read The Full Story

VertiPod taking the Segway to the skies

James Allan Brady, Nov 28th 2007 Discuss [3]

So this VertiPod thing works like a Segway, the only difference being that a Segway doesn’t generally hover 5-15 feet in the air or use fuel. You can even get going a zippy 40 miles per hour in this little thing, I don’t know about you, but having your VertiPod “trip” over something mid air while going 40 seems like a painful possibility to me. The steering is much the same as a Segway though, lean in whatever direction you want to go, and then its opposite to cease going that direction. The kits, which you have to put together yourself, come with your choice of petrol or ethanol engines. Read The Full Story

GroundSurf, it’s a skateboard with Segway tech built in

James Allan Brady, Nov 14th 2007 Discuss [0]

So it has an electric motor on the front wheel that works like a Segway, lean forward, you go forward, lean back, you slow or stop. The rear truck also sounds pretty complicated with a 3D cinematic (does it have a camera?) rear truck. Sensors on the board are what control the motor on the front wheel. Kind of boring right? Wrong, wait till you hear what it can do with a mobile phone. Read The Full Story