Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

Recent Items
 
Hugging the Monorail: Counting Noses
 
Seattle: Hugging the Monorail
 
Education: What Does Student-Centric Look Like?
 
Seattle: Through New Eyes
 
What did you do in the electoral wars of 2004, Daddy?
 
Dave's Welcome to Rain City
 
Urban Zoology: Will Work for Cherries
 
Education: It's About the Students
 
BloggerBuzz: Blogger Support Appreciation Day
 
Serious Hand-Wringing: The Borrow-Spend Death Spiral

Space-Age Meter Reader

I saw my first Segway HT the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and I was walking home from an errand.  I heard a whirring noise and this fellow passed in the street, pulled up behind a parked car, and dismounted.  While he checked the water meters along the parking strip, I watched the HT e-series unit quietly bob back and forth in a gentle rocking.  Of course, I thought to myself, balance is perpetual falling over the same point.  It was beautifully done.

The transporter seems ideal for scooting around neighborhoods and performing this task.  The Public Utility worker said it worked great.  I liked that he seemed to be enjoying his curbside work.  It is also a clever application that doesn't use the pedestrian walkways.  I'm impressed.

posted by orcmid at 10/2/2004 11:15:21 PM