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GM's P.U.M.A.: Fleet Captain Pike meets Paul Blart, Mall Cop

Posted April 08, 2009 10:14 AM by Harry Goldstein

In general, it's a bad thing when every blogger has the same first reaction to your new "personal mobility pod."

IMAGE CREDIT: Segway

G.M. and Segway have teamed up to breathe new life into the Segway personal transporter, rescuing it from the mall cop ghetto it now inhabits in the public imagination.


IMAGE CREDIT: TrekMovie.com
Star Trek action figure tableau including Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, whose run-in with fictional delta radiation left him paralyzed, mute, badly scarred, and confined to a wheelchair at Starbase 11.

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