Segway as social enterprise (and a comics legacy)

DRAFT--Disability Rights Advocates for Technology--has provided 30 veterans with Segways. The advantage: not just increased mobility, but heightened self-respect:

Now, thanks to a specially designed Segway, the battery-powered transporter, [Iraq double-amputee] Keeslar says he can ditch his wheelchair and get around without people looking down on him.

In the following video, Dean Kamen--son of the legendary EC Comics artist Jack Kamen--describes his ongoing project to revolutionize prosthetic arms for veterans. It is truly technology in McLuhan's sense of the term: an extension of the self.