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Segway Knock-offs

I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw this knockoff.

http://outdo.en.alibaba.com/product/...r/showimg.html

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Re: Segway Knock-offs

...Wow.
I still like Kamen's Segway much more.
*sigh* well, what can ya do?
Evil imitators..
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

I think that's the Q thingie, only in ugly purple. They showed these off at the 2004 CES, and they got the nick name Fakeway.

It's not even like it's a good copy. I've seen pictures of this thing running, it's not pretty, it dosn't have the power to go up hills (much) and the interface is clumbsy.
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I second that. That...thing looks pretty evil to me. It looks like it's staring into your soul, like it actually has a purpose besides being an evil Segway clone.
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

They look cheap and I would be scared to ride one but I do think that they would be funny to see in real life. I followed a link from the site linked to above and found these:
http://www.easthardware.com/model/11...9110&m_id=3217
These look even cheaper with their crappy seats. Its funny to see how people try to make money off of junk.
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

Tech tv did a challege in may of last year where they put one of these things against a segway. the outcome: the segway killed it, it can menover just as well but don;t have the power to climb hills or the range that the segway does
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and they got the nick name Fakeway.
I love that name, but does anyone know if Segway can do anything about them.
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

they are not violating any patents, dean holds.


here they are http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...FIELD2=&d=PG01

about halfway down the list are all the ones associated with segway but you can tell from the description
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

I keep seeing pop-up ads for these, and was wondering how long it would take to show up here.

I also think there may be prior art, as one of the mentors on 190 build the J-way, which looks like a ghetto version of this, for the Houston champtionship. I'll see if I can dig up some pictures.
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

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they are not violating any patents, dean holds.


here they are http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...FIELD2=&d=PG01

about halfway down the list are all the ones associated with segway but you can tell from the description
A few of those are not Dean's patents. There is also a Yury Kamen and a Melvin Kamen with patents. There may also be a few others, but I did not look at all of them.

Here are Dean's patents.
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

Segway (HT) at Sams Club I didn't want to start a Thread about this, but they are now selling Segways (HT) at Sams Club for $2,488. Segways are deffanatly getting more popular. As far as the look alikes i think they can all be atleast under 300 dollars... otherwise there isn't much point in them..
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I didn't want to start a Thread about this, but they are now selling Segways (HT) at Sams Club for $2,488. Segways are deffanatly getting more popular. As far as the look alikes i think they can all be atleast under 300 dollars... otherwise there isn't much point in them..
REALLY!?!?! Wow, that's cheap!
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

Yeah the price is really dropping. Still not as down as i'd like it but then again it took a lot of research into making them so the price fits them (also their really cool).
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Re: Segway Knock-offs

Wow... Sam's Club. 2488 At that price, I imagine they will move quite a few.

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At-Home product orientation is available with each purchase of a Segway Human Transporter
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Sigh... It may look cool but it doesn't compare to the real thing...
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