SJ Merc: "Sales of the Segway, priced at $8,500 each for now, have been anemic." [Scripting News]

The price-point on this has to drop for mass market adoption, down to the $2k range at least. Even for the SUV version with the beefier tires, battery, and power, it should not be more than $4k, or else they are going to price themselves out of the market.

I am looking forward to the stirling powered version of this, and I wonder if it will be able to go even faster.

What I find interesting in this article is that one of the investors only has a fiduciary interest in the balancing technology that has been developed, not in any other part of Kamen's businesses. I would live to see this tech deployed in cars, as it would serve to massively increase skidpad ratings, as well as smoothing out bumpy and or uneven roads. I know that similar tech has been around for years now, pioneered by Citroen, I think, and deployed in the Catera from Cadillac, but to see it in other vehicles would be very cool.

11:38:34 AM    

MacOS PVR a-comin'. ElGato software will launch its MacOS personal video recorder (like a software TiVo) at MacWorld New York this weekend. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]

I imagine that they will have to add some kind of coax-in for the signal, likely a USB based converter. What's cool is if you then go and spend another grand or so on FInal Cut Pro, you can burn full length DVDs of the programs that you have recorded.

If they want to be super slick, they'll have the signal converter able to handle HDTV, so you can then start burning the wide-screen versions of your shows. Somehow I don't think that is going to happen though.

If you have the scratch, after you record the show, throw it on one of the new servers, and be able to stream it (hmm, how to stream it...) anywhere in the house. Your own TV station showing the shows and movies you want, when you want them (I know, I'm a broken record.)

11:10:06 AM