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From Hype to Disaster: Segway's Timeline

in News on September 27, 2010 at 11:31 am PT

British police said Monday that the owner of the company that makes the Segway was found dead after falling off a cliff…on a Segway. It’s a gruesome chapter in the history of an invention that was supposed to revolutionize the way we get around but that ended up going nowhere.

Vitaminwater Gets Facebookers Brainstorming on a New Flavor

in News on September 8, 2009 at 8:13 am PT

Vitaminwater ventured into the world of crowdsourcing Tuesday with the launch of a new Facebook application in which users compete to create the energy drink’s newest flavor, even down to the bottle design, to the tune of a $5,000 prize.