Toyata Winglet Trumps Segway

I spent one week with a Segway, devising ways to turn it into a crowd pleasing head turner for advertisements. I drove the Segway around my neighborhood, and unadorned it turned heads - perhaps because I looked a bit geekish and lazy. It seems the biggest problem with the Segway, is that even with the introduction of an off-road version, people generally feel no real sense of adventure while riding on it.

Enter the Toyota Winglet, and things are about to get interesting. Looking more like inline skates than a moving podium, the Winglet looks sporty. It is a hands free device which allows for posing (and frankly who wouldn't throw their hands out in a "I'm riding the wind" stance on this thing).

The Winglet isn't exactly the flying car we have been waiting for, but it certainly stands a good chance of turning heads away from the Segway and towards the future of urban transportation.

Now lets see how long it takes to get it decked out for off-road.

(Thanks to gagadet.com for the video!)