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via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430752&page=2

The below seat can be seen at http://www.segseat.com/ and purchased for about 500 bucks

Just check the seating custom changes... this is what enables anyone with leg problems to utilize a Segway and have upright mobility. Both of the seats will flip up or down to get out of the way when getting on or off the Segway.

Seventeen severely wounded warriors received a custom modified Segway, the personal mobility device, at a ceremony on the forward deck of the historic USS Midway.

Segs4Vets recipients use the Segway instead of a wheelchair and say the Segway allows them to stand tall in their prosthetic legs, improves their mobility and lets them appear less disabled in public.

The recipients included nine soldiers, two Marines, two national guardsmen, two airmen and two sailors. They come from Guam , Washington, D.C. and a dozen states, including California. Many are still undergoing treatment and rehabilitation at the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Segs4Vets, a project of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology, a non-profit organization rated as one of America’s best charities, (one of 2,000 out of 1,000,000 charities in America) returned to San Diego for the third time to make the presentation.

The recipients sustained serious injuries which limit their mobility during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Segway dramatically improves personal mobility for military service members who lost limbs to amputation or suffer from spinal cord injuries, neurological injuries and soft tissue damage.

``Those who become disabled while serving our nation deserve the best tools available to live productive and fulfilling lives,’’ said Jerry Kerr, president and founder of DRAFT. ``The Segway has proven its value to more than 400 wounded warriors and we are delighted to provide this device to these brave military service members to help them fulfill their dreams.’’

Several former recipients who attended the ceremony included John Hyland, a former Army soldier and trained opera singer who will sang the National Anthem at the ceremony, and Kortney Clemons who is training for the Paralympic Games at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego. Two of the earliest recipients used their Segways to complete undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and are now attending law school.

More than 33,000 men and women in uniform have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of hostilities. The Segway is not covered by military medical insurance.

Segs4Vets, created in late 2005, is run entirely by volunteers as part of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology (DRAFT), a 501c3 created to represent people with disabilities who refuse to be defined by their disability and whose passionate enthusiasm for participation in life’s activities is supported by Universal Design and new and emerging technologies. The organization is a member of Military, Veterans & Patriotic Service Organizations of America and has been certified as one of the best charities in America by the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence, an honor accorded fewer than 2,000 of the more than one million public charities in the United States.

DRAFT is the only organization to ever receive a blanket waiver from the U.S. military allowing a gift in excess to $1,000 to severely injured active duty military force members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you are an individual with a disability which substantially limits your ability to walk and you use a Segway as an assistive moblity device and intend to visit the Walt Disney World or Walt Disneyland Resorts the proposed settlement, if approved by the court, will allow Disney to continue to prohibit the use of Segways by those with disabilities.

You will be forever barred from contesting the fairness, reasonableness, or adequacy of the settlement or from pursuing any claims against Disney related to the use of Segways at the Disney Resorts.

United States Department of Justice

Joins DRAFT In Opposing Disney Settlement
The Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice files an amicus brief in a rare objection strongly opposing the proposed settlement as "fundamentally unfair" to people with disabilities.

Click on links below to view PDF's
DRAFT Press Release
DOJ Objections to Proposed Disney Settlement
DRAFT Objections to Proposed Disney Settlement
Disability Rights Advocates For Technology http://segs4vets.org/

How does this apply to you? Well, if you hapopen to be injured in a auto colliosion that is due to someone elses poor driving, you might need a wheelchair or a Segway for ambulkatory assistance. Wouldn't you like to use it if you went to Disney? Seems to me that if you use a wheeled chair, a seeing eye dog, or are married to, related to or become wheelchair bound, you might find this affects you too.

From http://www.ted.com/ one amazing bunch of ideas, innovators, and thinkers that have improved on things, and if you find the catagories you are interested in you'll find a lot of great things

I've been going back through the archives for a while, here are some of my favorites, the coolest stuff I've posted.
Keep checking back, this will take a while to complete

in no order of significance;
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/teenage-dream-so-many-have-had-in.
html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/lars-erik-fisk-artist-with-vision-of.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/carroll-shelby-once-had-special-ac.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/tour-with-jim-86-yrs-old-who-still-has.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-favorite-all-time-car-stories-is.html and it's update a year later http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/team-sprite-car-gets-auctioned-again.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/high-school-auto-restoration-class.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/1967-shelby-advertising-of-pit-stop_19.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Graffiti
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/barn%20find
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/rated%20R
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/turbonique
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/lee-marvins-shelby-convertible-that-he.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/74-mile-70-hemicuda-500000.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_24.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/life-line-family-tree-flow-chart-of.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-recently-learned-that-my-granddad-had.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/03/dont-race-it-if-you-cant-afford-to.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/03/most-amazing-tool-box-youll-ever-see.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/04/good-trash-talking-on-hemmings-blog-as.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Burt%20Munro

That's all I've had time for so far, I'll finish this off in time with a couple others that will strike me as awesome and probably not seen by the majority of people who've started looking at this blog recently and don't have time to look through the entire archives

If you remember some that you think were the coolest, post the link in the comments, or email me direct at jbohjkl@yahoo.com, and thanks for reading and enjoying!