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A Japanese airport has taken delivery of several hi-tech 'wheelchairs', allowing airline staff and security guards to patrol the ticket halls and baggage areas in style. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com Called i-Real, the three-wheeled wonder is described by maker Toyota as a “personal mobility …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Serendipity at work.

    "... integrated social networking system....."

    So a sort of FaceBook lard chariot then. They'll sell like hot cakes.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    I have an Idea

    i Real + Overweight Humans = WallE 2

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  3. James 5
    WTF?

    I thought humans ...

    .. had evolved legs to do this sort of thing? Maybe I'm mistaken.....

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  4. Miek

    a title

    Saw this on Top Gear a month ago and wondered whether it would actually be produced.

    Wouldn't a nice little bmx be a little more eco-friendly and look a little less silly.

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  5. lee harvey osmond

    seen these on the telly.

    These were on the BBC's entertainment^Wfactual show Top Gear last year.

    Also ... does anybody remember the Channel 4 drama "Cold Lazarus"? One of the two scripts Dennis Potter completed while terminally unwell? Some of the researchers shown in Cold Lazarus were riding about in their lab in vehicles superficially much like these -- right down to the vehicle reconfiguring itself to change the seat pitch etc for differing speed-based stability requirements.

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  6. D@v3
    Stop

    Next stop...

    Fat people floating around in hover chairs, á la WALL-E

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  7. Efros

    Wall-e

    Seems they are taking cartoons too seriously in Japan. Besides I want Roo bars!

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  8. Schultz

    Wrong audience

    This chair seems to be built for thin asian women, but the target audience is surely the overweight western security guard.

    Walking: It's how thin people stay thin.

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  9. Stu
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    Argghh!

    Run for teh hillsz, its Davros!

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  10. Anonymous Coward
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    Mod time...

    Who's going to be first to turn it into a Davros wagon for the Home Secretary. I mean if we're going to be ruled by power-mad dangerous lunatics, they should at least look like power-mad dangerous lunatics.

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  11. Anonymous Coward
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    Extending the couch into the real world

    Has nearly all the advantages of walking, except the possibility of any form of exercise. Ideal.

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  12. donc
    WTF?

    Rip off

    Isn't this just taken straight from Wall-E? (minus the hover part)

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  13. Frostbite
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    Nooooooooooo!

    Has nobody watched Pixar's film "Wall-E" ?

    Have you seen what happens to the people?

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  14. northern monkey
    Welcome

    I for one...

    ...welcome our new Chub Chariots

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  15. Graham Marsden
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    iReal...

    ... iPod, iPhone, iTunes, iGoogle...

    ... can I please trademark iDespair?!

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  16. Anonymous Coward
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    Why am I seening Daleks

    Driving these things around?

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  17. Lukin Brewer

    It's like...

    a Segway for people who can't handle Segways.

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