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# NeoHands


cliquez for biggie

Usual apologies if done etc, etc...
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:20, archived)
# haha
nice!
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:23, archived)
# Kootos!
Is this what they really meant when they announced the "animatrix"?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:23, archived)
# IT is very funny
.
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:28, archived)
# IT?
you mean Ginger?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:35, archived)
# No I mean computers, IT is very funny.
No the freakin' picture. Who is Ginger?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:44, archived)
# well..
"Ginger" was the codename of Segway (that standy uppy scooter thing).

Before it was known that it's codename was "Ginger" it was just known as "IT" (when all we knew about IT was that it was so revolutionary that it'd force people to redesign cities around it!)

www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23155.html

Oh how we laugh now
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:52, archived)
# For all the logic in the world - that was one hell of a leap from (IT) to
ginger on your behalf. Or is there more to this?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:00, archived)
# not really
we were making jokes about "IT" at work for weeks, so it kind of got engrained in :-\
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:07, archived)
# Although now the thinking is that
'IT' or 'ginger' isn't the segway at all.
Dean Kamen said at the time that 'IT' would change the way people designed cities. The Segway certainly wouldn't do that, it was designed to work with a city's geography the way it is at the mo....
The Mystery continues......
Where did I put that bloody link to the patents?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:05, archived)
# Did anyone say
Sinclair C5?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:09, archived)
# did anyone say
Walk You Lazy Feckers?
(, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:18, archived)
# I bet his matrix name
was Mr Nohanderson

/coat
(, Wed 16 Oct 2002, 9:24, archived)