iBot helps teenage girl - ABC News

[gburlison]

Originally Posted by Ryan M.

Holy cow that's an expensive chair.

I heard a rumour that the Segway was brought to market to hopefully create a mass market for the kind of technology that the iBot uses. The hope was that mass producing the parts for the Segway would drive down the cost of parts used to make products like the iBot. I have no clue how true the rumour is.

[dubious elise]

Amazing. What the young lady mentioned is such an oft-overlooked idea. A number of people that I have talked to that are wheelchair bound have made similar comments about the inability to speak to others on eye level unless everyone is seated. Once again, another marvelous idea!

[Erin Rapacki]

iBOT: fun to drive.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by gburlison

I heard a rumour that the Segway was brought to market to hopefully create a mass market for the kind of technology that the iBot uses. The hope was that mass producing the parts for the Segway would drive down the cost of parts used to make products like the iBot. I have no clue how true the rumour is.

Actually the Segway was invented becuase a member of the Ginger team who was a daredevil stood on a prototype and rode it around the room. Dean saw this and got hit with a notion that this was the future and transportation. Then Steve Jobs got the craze and now we have this thing called the Segway HT. (Just a funny story about the iBot was when several investors came to see an early prototype it body slammed Bengi Ambrogi (I think) into a wall)