Keepin’ it real fake, part LXVIII: the four-wheeled Segway

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You can really only go two ways when you’re knocking off an iconic product, according to our copy of “Asian Device Fakery, 4th Edition”: either you can slavishly copy every detail and come up with a faithful replica, or you can throw caution to the wind and crank out the craziest mishmash of branding and design you can. Any other approach inevitably leads to hilariously awful results — like this four-wheeled “Segway” that’s been popping up in Europe. It looks like whatever company built this thing lacked the basic engineering skill to make it self-balance, so the designers just went ahead and added a couple extra wheels to really pump up the nerd-on-the-run factor. Only €399 ($544) to barely out-cool than the guy on the electric tricycle.

[Thanks, JM]

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