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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:19:40PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Neat technology, incredibly stupid application.
>
> Where are the wheel chairs for quadraplegics? The industrial-sized
> carts that follow their master without his or her pulling, without
> wasting fuel?
Um, this is an application of the same technology used to make the
six-wheeled self-balancing wheelchair that can go up and down stairs.
It just so happens that there are more bipeds on the planet than paraplegics.
Ergo, the potential for ginger is much larger than improved wheelchairs.
Especially in sub-saharan africa, where a 12mph gadget that uses $0.05 of
power each day is much more important than a $100 ankle-breaking razor scooter.
Just an observation,
Z.
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