Segway Scooter in Need of New Innovations Upgrade because despite all the fuss it lacks the latest and greatest technological advancements and doesn’t impress everyone. The Segway team? Come on, use the latest technology, will you? Regarding this idea:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp?cp1=1

These guys are brilliant to be sure, but we could send them back to the drawing board instantly to narrow down their ideas. Let’s start with its most basic component, namely “The Wheel” is an old component and if you want to build something revolutionary, build it without wheels and without touching the ground and without recharging. It can be designed better. Here is how. Take Bruce DePalma’s perpetual motion machine for power, so by adding such a feature you wouldn’t need recharging and without the wheels you could move more weight faster with less power. As you say? Well, first of all, we use hydro-padding technology like the one used in floating ships. And think that you are only wanting to move a human body that we are talking about an average of 250 Lbs. To do this and keep the air underneath, place a small brush guard system under the device where it is located. Then blow 1-2 lbs. low pressure air below. It takes almost no energy to lift 250 pounds or less. This will lift the thing off the ground.

So instead of wheels the thing is magic and it floats, much better and more advanced too. Now put 18 small jets that move the air in the intended direction of travel to the gyroscope or the small circuit board, which is a miniture laser ring gyroscope to prevent it from falling while driving it by changing its weight. When you spin by moving the weight of your body, the jets of coins move you from side to side while the gyro makes it work simultaneously. The system will prevent it from tipping over like the system on an F-16 that prevents the pilots from turning too many G’s so that the plane doesn’t go out of flight or the pilot passes out. Now you have a floating mobile with gyroscope, it works exactly the same and it doesn’t need fuel. Like back to the future, huh? It works physically. I once knew the guy who built the first hydraulically damped car, he looked like a little sauser, he used to drive it in Los Angeles on the 101 freeway in the 1960s. He was paranoid because the establishment had hounded him because of his mettle with big business , General Motors and the automotive industry. I met him at Denny’s in Woodland Hills, CA in 1996. His technology now moves 100,000 Lb. pallets of jet fuel during the production run at Everette WA. He also designed the hydraulically damped bullet train that was never built, but was a project to transport people to Las Vegas from Los Angeles on a high-speed train, which would prevent the trains from hitting the ground. No friction means little energy loss.

Someone should challenge the Segway team to innovate more and not interrupt consumers. The unit should continue the tech trend to be the best, frankly, it’s still not good enough and that’s a lot of venture capital to pay for yesterday’s tech, even at $ 5,000 each. Am I too severe with this wonderful invention? Oh, probably, but if the manufacturers are unwilling to win it and won’t put in the effort, then maybe we can help. We should challenge these guys, so they can build it better. Considering the wonderful publicity they have received, including the president of the USA trying one, why can’t they be inspired to take this technology to the next level? After all, it’s 2003 for crying out loud. As well as adding my enhancements, it could also be used in the water. You could cross a lake, rescue a sinking ship, it has thousands of other uses, you could even sweep your driveway with it. Or build a robotic one that moves and moves for you?

I don’t want to be so critical, but if you have that much money to invest in venture capital, why can’t you build a better mousetrap?