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It has come to this that able bodied men and women need a automated wheelchair to roam around! Wow. That shitty future that movies has shown is really here!
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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New Zealander here, its Australian.
Australian here, suspect he's spent significant time in both countries because the way he says 'this' is not how an Australian accent sounds, but other parts of his speech sound very Australian.
[1] http://www.infobel.com/en/newzealand/ogo_technology_limited/...
So, this isn't mainly for disabled people, I take it?
I worry that there might be difficulties leaning over and picking things up without the chair moving. Imagine dropping something and instinctively leaning over to catch / retrieve it.
But at the end of the day they most optimal recipe for success still is
1) Find a real problem 2) Build a solution 3) Start selling
There are alternatives to growth-hacking and content marketing and what other tricks are out there.
Just look around you there are real problem everywhere where the solution doesn't need a marketing budget. It just needs to make itself known. And it's revenue from day one.
Love every single second of this.
This looks like a huge improvement over a wheelchair (have you ever tried the joystick control on an electric wheelchair?). Way better mobility. And it looks cool. Completely the opposite feeling of watching someone on a Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.
The site could show a bit more info, e.g. the technical parameters of the thing. It would be interested to see even for the prototype. Also, is this how New Zealand accent sounds like?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ogo-two-wheeled-wheel...
This looks like a huge improvement over a wheelchair (have you ever tried the joystick control on an electric wheelchair?). Way better mobility. And it looks cool. Completely the opposite feeling of watching someone on a Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.
> Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop. That's an curious association - I assume this is because only mall cops (and tourists) tend to use it nowadays? :).