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The great American road trip has been romanticized for as long as America has had roads. Men and women riding in wagons/trains/cars, discovering their country and, somewhere along the way, discovering themselves.
Take your pick of the classic literature and movies dedicated to this experience. (I'm partial to the Breckin Meyer classic "Road Trip" in which he plays Josh Parker, a modern-day Dean Moriarty.) (Or maybe "Cannonball Run.")
Now imagine if the trip had been made on a Segway that goes 10 mph.
In this documentary, two guys give up their corporate jobs to trek from Seattle to Boston on the two-wheeled gyroscope contraption, crossing some of the same paths as the Oregon Trail and the Lewis and Clark expedition all while traveling about the same speed as the Pony Express did way back when.
But the best part about watching people on a Segway is the wipeouts, right? Heh. Click "continue reading" for some more fine Segway moments for you to enjoy.
Hey, inventor Dean Kamen. Remember when your top-secret "world-changing" invention was released in December 2001 on "Good Morning America"? The one Steve Jobs said would be "as big a deal as a PC," helping to fuel speculation that it could be an anti-gravity device or a Stirling engine? Yeah, when you unveiled the easy-to-use, self-balancing Segway scooter it was a bit of a letdown, but we gave you the benefit of the doubt. After all, that whole walking thing was sooo twentieth century.
Perhaps we first became skeptical when the machine tried to kill our president. Maybe it was when American cops started using them to patrol suburban streets, and Chinese cops used them in S.W.A.T. exercises. Either way, now your prized scooters are being used as golf karts in Japan, fake polo horses for rich tech-heads, and punchlines in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop." Tough break, man.
It's finally here - an exclusive first look at the sequel to "Beverly Hills Chihuahua."
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