I agree. While I do think the technology behind it is cool, I think it's
applications are limited. You'd have to change a lot more than the way
we get around in order to revolutionize the world. I'd have trouble even
getting around campus as I don't use a bag, I carry my books. How can I
carry my books and keep two hands on the handlebars? Plus, since their
website crashed Netscape, I still don't know how you store the thing
once you get where you're going. Do you just lean it against the wall?
Plus, isn't it a little heavy to carry it up the stairs into a building?

Josh

Dale Botkin wrote:
>
> I certainly wasn't impressed.  If most people could ride something otehr
> than a car most of the time, we could...  somebody 'splain to me how I'm
> going to ride that sucker the 8 miles from my house to work, in the rain
> or snow, carrying my laptop, briefcase an a cup of coffee.  I don't think
> so.  If I could figure thatout I'd own a motorcycle.  My kid's got an
> electric scooter...  not as fancy, but the price had a decimal place in an
> ENTIRELY different position, too!
>
> Revolutinize the world?  Heh.  Maybe parts of Southern California or
> Florida, but there's nothing new about that.
>
> Dale
> --
> "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
> curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
>           - Arnold Edinborough
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jinx wrote:
>
> > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA011203What_IT_is.ht
> > ml
> >
> > Anyone else underwhelmed ?
>
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