Segway CTO joins Apple

I rode one of these over the weekend and it made me gay.

Biggest flop ever of a product. Hope they keep this guy on a short leash.

Its a shame people assume Segway riders are just tools.

My mother has MS, and her Segway has enabled her to stay active, as a volunteer, wife, mother and friend. She scoots along on this fantastic device.

People assume all the time that she is just lazy, and I see the scowls when we are together, and it breaks my heart, for her and everyone who has not the open mind or patience to not jump to conclusions without knowing the full story.

Woo hoo -- self-stabilizing gyros in all Macs from here on out!

I didn't realize this was a Segway haters area. Doug Field is a really talented and successful designer. Too bad we have to cut him down like that.

Woz is not a tool! You take that back!

Remember when Jobs was given a sneak peek at the then-mysterious transportation device from Dean Kamen? He panned the *design* of the thing. Perhaps because he noticed the dorkiness, who knows.

Dave, please leave the childish desire to poke fun at someone who was told to get on a segway that wasn't turned on over at some other blog.

Seems to indicate Johnny Ive might be a strong successor to Jobs...

Apple is thinking about areas where the paradigm of the product and its use is stuck in the past, where the product hasnt changed because no-one wants to, or knows how to, 'break the game'.

Transport is one area where this is very much the case.

An Apple designed vehicle of some kind, which breaks the game (like the iPhone) is a possibility, in conjunction with an automaker like Toyota.
(it wont be GM....)

Or maybe they just want his knowledge of the battery technology or some such mundane thing?