Outside of cameos in The Last Jedi and Knives Out, he hasn’t been in a hit movie since Don Jon almost a decade ago.

I think it was just after Don Jon it seemed like he kind of disappeared from prominence for a little while, even though that seems to essentially only have been three years?

Why does Joseph Gordon-Levitt need a comeback? Did he harass someone? He was in a Best Picture nominee last year.

It’s the Wade Boggs Memorial Beer Limitation Statute.

“My parents’ house has wildly appreciated in value in the past couple decades due to record low interest rates, protectionist zoning laws, and a societal shift to valuing housing as investment over shelter!”

Would seem like a standard thing to have for any makeshift repairs to equipment (and there’s plenty of non-flight-critical equipment on a plane) during a flight. There’s probably a collection of “stuff” to have for any in flight maintenance.

The joke is that that the much vaunted high tech gyroscopic stability of the Segway has a very low tech solution that would have worked just as well -- a third wheel, not that Segways themselves used that solution.

Because I’m fun at parties... the Segway doesn’t need a third wheel, and the third wheel that has been shopped onto that Segway doesn’t make it look any less dorky (which as others have pointed out, is the fundamental problem).

Dean Kamen is unfortunately still alive and still making garbage like the world’s first drug infusion pump and the portable dialysis machine, trying to build generators and water purifiers to help developing countries (Stirling-engine powered, pulls water vapor out of the air), and - hubris of hubrises - trying to…

Many years after the Segway debacle, and yet many years ago, I was standing on a street corner waiting to walk. Then I heard a loud whirring and the thumping of electronic dance music approaching rapidly. As I turned, I saw an absolutely jacked black guy in a bulletproof vest and camo pants, not just “riding” his…

The root of the problem with this thing was that it was, for want of a better word, dorky.

It almost changed the face of sports as we know it.

The article does a good job describing how paranoid Kamen was, and he was clearly naive to think that was a good way to launch Segway as a mass market vehicle.

I remember the hype buildup to the Segway announcement, and I remember the hissing sound as all the air escaped from the balloon. As a non-car owner, I thought the tech was cool but I could see a fatal flaw immediately: it had all the downsides of riding your bike to work (you get wet when it rains, it can get really…

Sure, the guy in the $6000 suit was conned into buying an overpriced scooter. Come on!

Early investor Jeff Bezoz assured Kamen, “You have a product so revolutionary you’ll have no problem selling it”. Meanwhile, as Kois points out, “No one at DEKA had ever been told the price point was too high, because no market research had ever been conducted”. No market research was conducted because DEKA found Dean…

I can still remember the build up to this thing, and tuning in to some morning show where they unveiled it, after all this hype about how it would revolutionize personal transport. I distinctly remember it being unveiled, and if you’d had a big wet shart for a sound effect, you couldn’t have had a more dismal…