The Segway Human Transporter has been banned from the sidewalks of supposedly tech-friendly San Francisco. Other Californian cities may follow suit, according to New Scientist (1 Feb 2003, page 7). This may be bad news for CA-based John Foss who has repeatedly expressed an interest in the device.
In the same column: according to an MIT survey, the top 5 inventions that most of us cannot do without are:
Where’s unicycles on that list??? 