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Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Re: Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

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Post by DavidSJ »

Looks very cool.

One thing I noticed about the video introduction is the speaker is explicitly talking to the viewer as if he or she is not the target audience, e.g. "while you and I may take this for granted ..." and "the disabled are exactly the same as you and me ..."

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Post by darklajid »

BtM909 wrote: post #6

I actually saw a disabled guy driving some sort of Segway but with a chair. That seemed more practical and useful compared to this. This was in Rome which isn't known for its nicely paved streets.

There used to be the iBot, which looked like an amazing product for people using a wheelchair today - but it is discontinued.

I remember Michael Kaplan (a Microsoft guy, regularly linked from the old new things/Chen for character set/encoding/unicode stuff) praising his iBot in quite some posts.

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Post by humanrebar »

lesingerouge wrote: post #11
rasur wrote: post #2

So, this isn't mainly for disabled people, I take it?

I suppose obesity could be considered a handicap.

Having problems walking is having problems walking. Judging the disabled because you think they deserve it doesn't make them healthy again. I'm not sure what it accomplishes, to be honest.
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