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Dean Kamen must be sitting out on his private island asking himself "WTF???".
by anamoulous 8y ago
Dean Kamen must be sitting out on his private island asking himself "WTF???".
- RandallBrown 8y agoWow, the Segway Minilite is only $300. https://www.amazon.com/Segway-miniLITE-Balancing-Transporter-Integrated/dp/B074CYX5PT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1513714136&sr=8-3&keywords=segway+miniLITE https://www.amazon.com/Segway-miniLITE-Balancing-Transporter... Fill the sidewalks with these and you could have your own startup!
- TomK32 8y agodoh, i'm over the max payload.
- komali2 8y ago220lbs is a surprisingly low payload... Depending on height it's not at all difficult for even a healthy person to be that weight, let alone someone that lifts or is a bit chubby. I wonder what kind of wiggle room there is?
- usaphp 8y agoHmm, I don’t know a lot of healthy people who weight over 220 lbs.
- xyzzy_plugh 8y agoI have plenty of athletic friends who are at least 6 feet tall and weigh more than 220.
- walshemj 8y agoAs one person I worked with in the health area BMI isn't that helpful when it comes to large guys 6 2 and up who do sports - the example they gave was the props in a premiership rugby team.
- Florin_Andrei 8y agoYeah, BMI is not always relevant if you ignore the body fat percentage.
- noir_lord 8y agoI'm 6ft, Have a 32" waist and a BMI of 26.5 (making me 'overweight'). BMI is terrible except as a very quick "You really shouldn't be 35 on the BMI scale" sanity check.
- usaphp 8y agoI am not saying there aren’t any athletic people who weight over 220lbs. I am just saying that the vast majority of humans are not 6’2” so those who weight 220lbs+ Are mostly overweight than athletic
- komali2 8y agoBMI is a pretty poor indicator. Raw bodyfat is probably the best measure of "obese or not." Someone at 15% bodyfat and 6 feet, 1 inches tall can easily hit 220 pounds, if they have high muscle mass. As another commenter pointed out, this isn't even considering the weight of clothing and carried items. My backpack usually weighs at least 15 pounds, sometimes up to 25. Clothes adds another, what, 3, 5, maybe even 8 pounds if I'm wearing boots?
- TomK32 8y agoah, the pro. i only say the 176 of the lite. At 193cm, with clothes, a backpack, laptop, i hit the 220lbs just so.
- Symbiote 8y ago220lb just happens to be almost exactly 100kg, so there's probably a lot of "wiggle". The BMI chart says someone should be 204cm tall for that weight to be the upper limit of healthy. Most charts don't bother extending this tall.
- hnaccy 8y agoI would say it is difficult for most people unless they're quite tall. You'd need lean mass similar to Paulo Costa 6'1 https://i.imgur.com/ZBeIgGp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZBeIgGp.jpg to be a in a healthy body fat range if my napkin math is correct.
- woolvalley 8y agoMaybe in north america...
- handsomechad 8y agovery few people with low body fat percentage will be 220 lbs unless they are 99th percentile height. (6'4''+) i would say the average athletic/fit person who is fairly lean (10-14% bf) [1] at a height of 6'0'' to 6'3'' will be anywhere from 165-205 lbs depending on frame, but very rarely more than 205 lbs now there are definitely healthy and athletic and strong people who are at or above 220 at those heights but they will most probably be "overweight"[2] (have excess body fat) or on exogenous hormones enabling them to gain a lot of extra muscle mass (most bodybuilders, nfl players, college football players,etc) [3] http://nattyornot.com/how-big-can-you-get-naturally-without-steroids/ http://nattyornot.com/how-big-can-you-get-naturally-without-... [1]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xtRJPJ1VQWk/Tj1ql1w-LrI/AAAAAAAAvio/efmnvDWVRiY/s640/n1432590034_30044509_1118.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xtRJPJ1VQWk/Tj1ql1w-LrI/AAAAAAAAvi... [2]https://storage.googleapis.com/media.mwcradio.com/flatterpages/Brian_W.jpg https://storage.googleapis.com/media.mwcradio.com/flatterpag... [3]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/7c/3c/977c3c65d9dc3aed71d5213a04a2b513.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/7c/3c/977c3c65d9dc3aed71d5...
- workinthehead 8y agoEven if your numbers meant anything (they don't) what's your point? It's ok to discriminate against unhealthy people?
- workinthehead 8y agoWell that's cool, I guess HN isn't above some good old-fashioned fat-hate.
- komali2 8y agoWho's hating fat people? This is just reality - heavy people weigh more, the Segway motors can't handle the weight. Even if the motors could (they probably can), heavy people would use more battery. By the way, literally nobody said fat until you. We were talking about heavy people.
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- burkaman 8y ago> 11 Mile Range | 10 mph Scooters go faster and have at least twice that range, I think.
- Jommi 8y agoThese are actually immensely popular in China (Or maybe it's a copy?)
- TomK32 8y agoAll hail the King of North Dumpling.
- jpao79 8y agoActually after you reach a certain point with respect to financial independence (which I am sure Dean Kamen has done), it might be more rewarding to actually generate really amazing prototypes of what could be done and then let other people put the actual money on the line to make it a reality. Then in your own mind, you get to claim thought leadership on 'high mobility carless cities' when you are reflecting back on your life without any actual financial risk and go about creating the next prototype for some completely unrelated industry.
- ak217 8y agoTotally. You know, the logical next step is a fleet of mechanical turk self-driving Segways. When the inconsiderate rider drops it off and blocks the sidewalk, just have someone take control over LTE+wide angle camera, and drive the Segway back to the nearest rental hotspot. Which could even have charging docks for the Segway to drive onto, like a Roomba.
- NoNotTheDuo 8y agoProbably not that far off. The current generation of mini segways are already controllable by bluetooth through the app. You can connect to it and drive it over to the sofa where you're sitting with ease.
- shanev 8y agoLime scooters are already made by Segway.
- zhoujianfu 8y agoWho was actually acquired by Xiaomi a while ago... the company that makes the bird scooters.
- zhoujianfu 8y agoHa, remember how Bezos said after seeing “it” that the Segway would transform how cities were built? Maybe now scooters actually will!
- ggg9990 8y agoI’ve ridden a Segway and a scooter and the scooter is MUCH more fun for me. The Segway is like “whoa this is cool” but the score is like “Wheeeee!” Makes me feel 5 years old again.