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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by kyoung05
Um, as cool as that "dolly" might be, (personally I could care less), Japan can keep it along with their school-girl panty vending machines, weird-*** fashion sense (ie. Shibuya district) where they can manage to be fobby without setting foot on a boat, and their subway gropers (chikan). Not to sound like an enthno-centric American *** (I'm Korean btw), I think it's ridiculous people get too caught up in the hyper-gadgety Asian trends like those tiny cell phones that require a stylus just to press the buttons.

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Old Feb 9, 2006 | 06:19 PM
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Who remembers the movie Hannibal?They used one for the disembowelment scene
Those pesky Italians have been using those things for years!
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Now for good old American Ingenuity, and that means Bush was NOT involved, the people who brought us the Segway people mover thingy, have a a wheel chair which operates on the same principle utilizing six (if I rember correctly) separately driven and independent wheels also using their patented centrifugal technology. I was present when Dean Kamen, the CEO did a 45 minute speech balanced on two of its wheels, moving around the stage!
Old Feb 9, 2006 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by I3eXa
come on guys, all he's sayin is that these aren't seen everywhere/everyday, like a normally dolly....
thank you, point made
Old Feb 9, 2006 | 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by kyoung05
Um, as cool as that "dolly" might be, (personally I could care less), Japan can keep it along with their school-girl panty vending machines, weird-*** fashion sense (ie. Shibuya district) where they can manage to be fobby without setting foot on a boat, and their subway gropers (chikan). Not to sound like an enthno-centric American *** (I'm Korean btw), I think it's ridiculous people get too caught up in the hyper-gadgety Asian trends like those tiny cell phones that require a stylus just to press the buttons.
cellphones in japan (and probably the rest of asia) are pretty big now because they want bigger screens.
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