SPLIFF YOU ROCK! I have had the same gut feeling for a long time! I am a writer myself, and I have just pounded out a article for the paper I write for! Its goin in Thursdays edition. You can check out a rough draft here

THANKS FOR BUSTIN THIS OPEN MAN, GREAT INVESTIGATIVE REAPORTING! :)

O yes, and ON THE RECORD, its a Segway with a sterling Engine. I am %110 sure of that.

Dont even bother questioning it

Please post things like this in the rumors forum.


Wetzel

Wetzle Please, eh nm. Just trust me

EVEN MSN IS.......
 

Today I just saw this link posted on msn.com:

Rumors: Segway isn't really Ginger

By Graham Hayday
Special to ZDNet
August 19, 2002, 7:37 AM PT

In the latest twist to the long-running Ginger saga, it's now being rumored that the two-wheeled device unveiled by inventor Dean Kamen last December isn't in fact the real deal.

http://msn.com.com/2100-1103-954339.html

a news item that says a rumor exists?
 

You know, just because the news media says a rumor exists does not mean the rumor is true. Ginger is Segway. Is "IT" something else? Could be. Does it matter? Doubtful. I mean really, does anyone really thing that Dean Kamen doesn't have multiple interesting things under development?

What's a sterling engine anyway?

"The Stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal-combustion engine in your car. Invented by Robert Stirling in 1816, the Stirling engine has the potential to be much more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine. "
"The gasses used inside a Stirling engine never leave the engine. There are no exhaust valves that vent high-pressure gasses, as in a gasoline or diesel engine, and there are no explosions taking place. Because of this, Stirling engines are very quiet.
The Stirling cycle uses an external heat source, which could be anything from gasoline to solar energy to the heat produced by decaying plants. No combustion takes place inside the cylinders of the engine. "

More at How Stuff Works.


Wetzel
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I can find most anything with google.

Stirling Engine
 

The Stirling engine is an enginethat uses heat exchange as a power source. It can pretty much run on anything.
See http://www.howstuffworks.com/stirling-engine.htm for a basic description. See http://www.stirlingengine.com/ for a company that sells small versions of the engine.

I haven't seen a sterling engine with enough power on tap to do what the Segway does in a package even close to the size constraints. I do know larger sterling engines require very precise parts to operate efficiently and that the reason we don't use them in cars is because we keep it on the shelf next to the 400 mpg carburator (just kidding it's on a different shelf)

My only question is, what if you're wrong? In truth, i hope there is something more to IT than Segway. But if not? Don't hope for more than you have been promised.

With lots of other stuff to. My guess is a following device, that allows for kids GINGERS to follow their parents, and it will climb stairs.

Did anyone see this part of the Stirling Engine webpage. Quite interesting.
edit - It tells about a patent recently filed about a stirling engine.


http://www.stirlingengine.com/FullPower.adp