On that quote from Dean:
I can see him saying that. He's pretty blunt; he tells it like he sees it.
When I read that quote I chuckled cause I saw a comment like that coming.
If it wasn't what he said, I'm sorry to him for thinking it's something he would say... but I can definitely see him saying that and think he did
It's not all that crude.. and it's completely true. Try going to a place like Bangkok some time (never been, my SD prof loves to tell the stories of it though)
Segway will do wonders for those places if people start using them and cars are thus taken off the streets in urban centers..
And maybe it was 'over-hyped' in terms of it's capabilites.. and maybe that's because to us the technology of the iBot is old hat.. but it's still pretty amazing if you take a step but and look..
and don't just look at the technology of it.. look at the implication of what it can do for the environment alone..
Simple things can change the world too.