The GoKart Pro 2, which made its debut at CES 2024, is now one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024

 

It is touted as far more than the average e-mobility solution in that it can also be used as a racing simulator for PC gaming when not going at up to 26.7 miles per hour. It can also convert into a detachable Ninebot hoverboard at need.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Segway-GoKart-Pro-2-lauded-as-one-of-the-Best-Inventions-of-2024.911276.0.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/segway-gokart-pro-2-named-to-times-list-of-best-inventions-of-2024-302291786.html

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2024/

Did you know that Segway got into the lawnmower business? MowBot has launched the Segway Navimow robotic mower in New Zealand

https://navimow.segway.com/us/product/navimow-i.html

https://www.tomsguide.com/home/smart-home/the-navimow-i110n-robot-lawn-mower-might-just-replace-your-landscapers

Irony, in transportation devices

 

Ninebot Inc., a Beijing-based transportation robotics startup rival, acquired Segway Inc. in April 2015, broadened the company to include other transportation devices, and announced in June 2020 it would no longer make a two-wheeled, self-balancing product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway

someone with a pet owl and a cheap old Segway figured out how to hustle some tourist change... convince the tourists that the owl is operating the Segway

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/dntlb2/owl_just_riding_around/

making a Segway roll on 37" off road tires? Yup, it can be done

Maybe he isn't doing the best jopb ever, but he's worked out a good method for doing miles of roadside edging that no one is ever going to scrutinize as they drive by at 50 mph

this camera guy is in his zone

https://www.flickr.com/photos/garywoodland/8969417229/

the Muppet Mobile Lab

Above was at Walt Disney World

Featuring Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his able assistant Beaker, this puppet-show-on-wheels was te4sted in 2007 at Diseny California Adventure, then Epcot's Future World into 2008.

It then took up residence at Hong Kong Disneyland Hong Kong Disneyland  until May 2013, before getting at month at Epcot in Oct 2013. It also was brought to events at TED talks 2007

and Pixar, both TED and Pixar were March 2007

They did a 7 minute comedy show. This two-wheeled vehicle uses the same technology as a Segway, but with a remote control and two-way communication. No one is hidden inside and no one is visible with a remote control.

The Muppets' vehicle is equipped with flashing lights, rotating signs, bubble jets, smoke sprayers, water misters, confetti cannons, and even a built-in gorilla detector.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photos/Muppet-Mobile-Lab/index.htm

Cross a wheelchair with a Segway scooter and you get an intuitive, hands-free wheelchair that promises new levels of freedom for paraplegics.

Working to help a friend who was paralyzed in a skiing accident, engineer Kevin Halsall spent four years modifying a Segway to become a wheelchair. The user simply leans in the direction they want to go — no need for even a joy-stick to make it move.

The two powered wheels can be changed quickly for all-terrain tires, allowing a user to race down a sandy beach at 12 mph — the average adult running speed or twice as fast as most people jog.

http://ogotechnology.com/  via  http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/you-simply-lean-to-tell-this-hands-free-wheelchair-where-to-go/

and if you must Segway, do it in style!

Found on http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/

Fun stuff found on Volksrod

Coolest dash board you can think of right?

2 points if you recognize Ol Dad in the photo below

All just a sample of the cool stuff on http://volksrat23.blogspot.co.uk/