@sknthla ooooh so, I disagree on this in a couple of ways: lots of Segway product backstory that's mostly unknown here.
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@sknthla Dean Kamen described in a talk I attended that the Segway product design came from an engineer drunkenly standing and balancing on1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sknthla their six-wheeled wheelchair design. Like "ooh whee look at me! Control systems are working, this is fun"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sknthla Kamen needed to increase economy of scale for purchasing component for iBOT because mfg quantities are low for specialized hw1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sknthla so by creating "consumer product with more broad appeal" the mission was to drive costs down for iBOT1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sknthla I think this is fundamentally why the Segway was seen as a "dumb" product: it did not have a pure product design intent.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@sknthla Segway did not have an inherent reason to live.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@sknthla SECONDLY hoverboards were not "done first in China." I class in conceptually separate product design branch from Segway.
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@sknthla but famously (somewhat more famously than Segway backstory anyway) was done first by a kickstarter. Then generically re re re done.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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