Rumours say that Dean Kamen’s famous Segway Human Transporter actually isn’t the same as his much-hyped, mysterious invention code-named Ginger.
I have to admit, I was hooked when I first heard about this mysterious Ginger invention that Steve Jobs raved about. I swallowed the hype whole without chewing when I heard people raving that the top-secret invention would revolutionize the world. Such things spark the imagination until it’s fairly burning with excitment over… whatever-it-is.
And then… nothing. Just as Ginger was dropping completely out of the public’s consciousness, Kamen reveals the Segway scooter. It’s a nifty gadget, alright. I’d love to take one out for a spin, but it’s hardly going to revolutionize anything.
So now there are murmurs that Ginger is not the Segway scooter after all. Sorry, Kamen. Don’t care.
I suspect that Ginger is actually a new technique to piss off a lot of people over nothing.