This speedy hands-free wheelchair was built out of Segway parts

Segways must be the dorkiest of all recent tech inventions, but a New Zealand man may be breathing new, useful life into the moribund form of transport.

Kevin Halsall has built a hands-free wheelchair by stripping a Segway into spare partsThe Ogo, as he calls it, currently exists as a fibreglass prototype, featuring a high speed of 20 kilometres per hour, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Constructed to suit his friend Marcus Thompson, a paraplegic, Halsall started his project by taking apart a NZ$14,000 Segway. "The first thing I thought was 'if I didn't have my legs [the Segway] would be the perfect thing I'd be adapting'," Halsall told the publication. "The steering and the sensing of it needed to be refined more, and the only way I could do that was getting into the guts of the Segway." Read more...