Re: Interesting hype about a secret project

[Dwayne <ddraig at pobox dot com>]

Patrick Salsbury wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:11:21PM -0500, Emilie Manning wrote:
> > Sounds like some sort of mass transit invention to me. What do you think it
> > is?
> > M:)M
> >
>         Either that, or perhaps a personal transit thingie. They talk about
> re-architecting cities, it being a 'non-dirty' technology. Perhaps some
> sort of bike? 


my comments on this on another list (futurec):



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> So what is IT anyway? The two best ideas I've heard are that it's a
> "smart" skateboard, or it's a personal power generator.


I initially thought it was some computing thing, so I thought someone
finally has a useful distributed computing interface, but if it is just
some technology thing, then who knows? Something like the Moeller
Skycar?  Hmmm, the only thing I can think of that would have as much
impact would be maybe some biogas home waste disposal/power generation
subsystem. And then I looked at what you wrote again :)

Hmmm.  Interesting. I have the scientist's website in another window


(From the Google cache):

We are proud to announce that a key DEKA technology was recently
featured on Dateline NBC. On June 30th, Dateline featured an extended
segment on the development of the INDEPENDENCE TM 3000 IBOTTM
Transporter. The INDEPENDENCETM 3000 is the first model of a new class
of mobility devices


Eh, so it is another computer gizmo. Probably a useful Transmeta pad.


also:

http://www.indetech.com

Thank you for visiting Independence Technology, a Johnson & Johnson
company. The INDEPENDENCE? 3000 IBOT? Transporter is an investigational
medical device and is not yet available for commercial distribution.

http://www.indetech.com/productfunction.html


Ummm, *WHEELCHAIRS????*


argh.
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oh, hello, btw.


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