How the Segway didn't change the world

At Slate, Dan Kois offers a brief history of Segway, the ingenious but too-hyped and too-dorky electric ride that became a joke upon its release. Twenty years on the current owner of the brand is a Chinese go kart company that used to sell cheap knockoffs (you can now buy their Segways from Amazon for about $500, lopping at least a zero off the price of an original) and now uses the name for all sorts of scooters. — Read the rest