IT revealed: Dean Kamen shows off mystery transportion device

[Yeoh Yiu]

I expect to see some GingerITs dashing about 
in various robotwars.

YY

Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com> writes:

> Boy, what bad timing Kamen has.  Not only is it too late for
> Christmas sales (if in fact the things are shipping anytime soon,
> as opposed to this being a demo for next Christmas shipping),
> but overall it's a year or two too late to catch the Razor Scooter fad
> and the San Francisco geek toys market, where there are
> some people still commuting on $500 electric scooters
> (Doug Barnes used to haul one on Caltrain, for instance),
> but an N-thousand-dollar device that's only usable for short hauls
> within cities, it'll be a real tough sell.
> 
> The real question is whether, next year when he's trying to sell quantity,
> anybody will list to the next round of hype.  On the other hand,
> this announcement is at least timed to keep people from
> totally forgetting him as more dot-com vaporware,
> so maybe it's not that bad timing after all.