Standing Wheelchair offers heightened opportunity for paralyzed individuals

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jesusbomb @ Aug 16th 2006 5:42AM

I feel compelled to point out that the technology behind the segway was intially developed as a means of transport for the disabled. The original protoype for the segway was a device nicknamed 'fred upstairs' (after fred astaire) which, in addition to it's ability to gyroscopically balance like the segway, had the ability to climb stairs, by means of wheels mounted on top of one another in rotation to hoist the user up stairs. The subsequent planned consumer version of the device was code named 'ginger' as in 'fred and ginger' -- get it? -- and eventually became what we know and love as the segway.

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