Sir Clive Sinclair, the British inventor, has died today at the age of 81, and though it’s the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and its impact on personal computing that will go down as his biggest success, it’s an altogether more oddball gadget – and disaster – that I can’t help but think of fondly. The Sinclair C5 arguably beat the current trend of electrified transportation by several decades, a three-wheeled curio that – like the Segway many years on – promised plenty but failed to live up to that in commercial terms.
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