{"id":43,"date":"2012-01-03T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2012-01-04T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T06:40:49","slug":"problems-vs-products-via-the-segway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/problems-vs-products-via-the-segway\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems vs. products (via the Segway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun page about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlb.org\/scooter.html\">DIY Segway<\/a> here. I will remember the Segway as one of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,186660-1,00.html\">overhyped<\/a> gadgets in an age of hype. The technology behind the Segway&#8217;s self-balancing trick was not innovative, but rather a straightforward application of control to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inverted_pendulum\">inverted pendulum<\/a> problem. The Segway illustrates one of the differences between engineering and business. Engineers solve problems. Businesspeople create products and services to meet a demand. Be careful when mixing the two. A successful product is most commonly not a solution to a problem, but a novel application of existing solutions. In the case of the Segway, the novelty was there, but the demand proved to be mostly illusory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun page about a DIY Segway here. I will remember the Segway as one of the most overhyped gadgets in an age of hype. The technology behind the Segway&#8217;s self-balancing trick was not innovative, but rather a straightforward application of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/problems-vs-products-via-the-segway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ugoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->