Quoting from 2 Stroke Buzz:

If you’ve always thought “Sure, Segways are great, but man, I hate standing up, and I wish they were uglier, lower-tech, and more expensive,” Toyota has a concept vehicle for you.

Wow. I wonder how much money went into this design? I also wonder if Hoveround is exploring intellectual property rights litigation? At least it's orange.

In other news... I promised an update on the meeting of the working group in feminist history. The panel was on biography in history, which is a hot topic, since biographies are usually more viable commercially, but less accepted in the academic world. More interesting than the real theme of the meeting was the material covered by the panelists, which ranged from female civil rights workers, to Soviet female military officers, to Cuban boxers. The case of the women who volunteered for the Soviet military was particularly fascinating because of the ways that men and women were able to identify across gender boundaries, and how those boundaries were reenforced later. We did not get into this, but I wonder how much of this reaction in the USSR was tied to the highly gendered culture of the 1950's US (see the famed kitchen debate). Thoughts?