DRM-enable this conduit, and game over for open content.

1) Make it easy to hack so users can remove the speed limitation. These things can do around 18mph I recall, but the consumer models are artificially limited to 12.5mph for safety reasons. Let people who are willing to void their warranty hack the thing (don't officially let them, just make it possible, and leak key details onto the net).

2) Make an ultra-high speed version that only goes into high speed mode when it is in a "train" with other Segways. Trains would be achieved not through a physical coupling, but rather an electronic coupling with proximity sensors and logic. Then four or five of these things could get together in a bike lane and really cook. There could be an additional level of safety if they would only go into this mode on special roads equipped with electronic beacons that indicated the road was "segway enabled." Yeah, I know, this goes against my first suggestion, but still I'd love to see both.

This will never see the light of day, as I said yesterday on this site.

They should have GPLed it and released it. Once they decided to sell it, it died.

Mark my words, you will never see this software available for sale. And you probably won't see it free, either, unless it's a totally independent implementation coming from somebody else. The developer of this had their chance at having some fame and a very nice resume bullet, but got greedy and blew it.

This will never see the light of day. Because the author has chosen to try to make money from it and has not released it as open source, that makes him a big target for the lawyers.

Just because phone unlocking has been ruled legal, does not mean that tools for doing so are legal to create and legal to sell. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

This will never see the light of day. First, because the creators want to make money off of it. That puts them in a world of legal trouble. Second, because of the DMCA. The only way that this could become available to the Rest Of Us would be if they had immediately released it as GPLed open source.

Earth to Engadget, having to buy a large SD card is not a big deal these days now that the price for a high-speed 1GB card has come down to $40. That is the current price at Fry's, which usually leads other stores in price cuts by only a few weeks.