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Japanese mini Segway "WalkCar"
Can you remember the Segway? And how we all thought of it as the new way of human transportation? Sadly, it hasn’t come to life mainly due tothe device being quite big and stodgy; and a big minus – too expensive. Enter the WalkCar. Now a Japanese engineer, Kuniako Saito presents you a new, tiny personal transportation system - WalkCar. It is small enough to fit right in your backpack! You can just take it out of your backpack, step on it and wush!
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Uh, no. A few people thought that and tried to hype it as such, but what I remember was the vast majority of us thinking it was a stupid niche "solution" to a non problem. The range of existing vehicles, including bicycles and mobility scooters and motorized skateboards, already addressed basically all of the uses a Segway could be applied to and it was nothing more than a gimmicky application of interesting technology. The idea that it was going to revolutionize anything at all was a pipe dream held by people enamored of the technology and laughed off by everyone else.