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Blog Guy, I’ve been riding a Segway for a couple of years now, but I don’t feel I’ve lost enough of my dignity. Is there anything that can make me look like even more of a nerd?
I get this question a lot from Segway riders. If you want to truly get in touch with your inner nincompoop, help is on the way.
Toyota has unveiled the Winglet, sure to be a ridicule-magnet. It has a top speed of 3.7 miles an hour – faster than walking but not fast enough to get away from a jeering mob with torches and pitchforks.
Toyota didn’t say when it will start selling the Winglet, or how much it will cost. A company executive said, “We first have to gauge the reaction of the people.”
Oh yeah? I’d like to be in on that.
Winglet video report More Segway posts
A Toyota manager demonstrates the company’s Winglet “M” personal transport assistance robot in front of an “L” model (R, on stage) in Tokyo, August 1, 2008. REUTERS/Michael Caronna
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I guess that’s a carrying handle protruding up in the middle there? That uh…. I’m not sure… Well, it just looks a little treacherous sticking up in that particular spot, doesn’t it?
What would you call the people using those things? Nerdlets? Nooblets?
I know…dateless.
I believe they’re called Wingcompoops…
And if they use it for too long, they can be called sopranos.