What is it about Wall Street Journal editors that makes tech executives give horrible, self-destructive quotes? They got Google's CEO to say children will someday change their names to escape their Google hits. And now they apparently got the inventor of the Segway to say many women and minorities are more interested in "bouncing balls" than studying computer science.

No longer able to muster any enthusiasm for Dean Kamen's transportation nonrevolution, the Segway Enthusiasts Group gives up the ghost and folds. Across the nation, tourists and Segway-mounted police mourn while looking dorky. [Techdirt]

The Washington Post and "don't call me the Segway inventor" Dean Kamen want geeks to be famous. Rather than letting creative geniuses get all the glory for their piddly "Oscars" and their "works of timeless art," the Post and Kamen want kids to worship real role models like the Google guys and YouTube founders.

Gawker's sibling blog, Gizmodo, reports that at least one celebrity was forced to re-do her Oscar wardrobe after scraping her knees in a nerdmobile accident. Actress Gina Gershon fell off of inventor Dean Kamen's much-hyped Segway human transporter.
Finally! Celebrity gadget gossip! [Gizmodo]