Segway

Here are a few members of China’s anti-terror police unit practicing shooting people in preparation for the upcoming Olympics. I can’t decide if this is scary or funny. More evidence that the Segway is ridiculous taking over the world. Read more here.

Environmentalists like to talk about how green Europeans are compared to us North American energy gluttons. They paint European cities as some kind of Suzuki-esque utopia. After stepping outside the North American gas-crisis zone and spending a few days in Paris this week, I have to say, they’re not entirely wrong. The streets are packed with scooters and motorcycles. The cars are all tiny. SUVs and oversized luxury cars are about as easy to spot as ivory-billed woodpeckers. Suzuki would be in heaven. People here figured out a long time ago how to live in a world of high energy prices.

According to several reports, like this one and this one, the Segway is suddenly surging in popularity. In this age of ungodly fuel prices, everyone from law enforcement agencies to universities and even pizza delivery men are turning to the electric Segway. As Popular Mechanics asks, “Could (inventor) Dean Kamen’s transportation revolution be on its way, albeit a few years late?”