Tag archive: Segway

If you’ve ever fancied owning a Segway but found the price tag to be prohibitive, then you might want to take a look at the new Personal Rover scooter. Although on first inspection it looks like the kind of thing Grandad might knock up in the garage on a Sunday afternoon, a look at a video (check it out below) of the Personal Rover in action will show you otherwise. The contraption, built by a company in Florida, comprises a fairly large… Read More

Jimi Heselden, founder of Hesco Bastion (which acquired Segway Inc less than a year ago), has died in an accident at his home in West Yorkshire, England—and it apparently involved going over a cliff on one of the self-balancing two-wheeled Segway scooters. The Segway wound up in the River Wharfe, while Heselden was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 62. Heselden's death is apparently being considered an accident by… Read More

This is the sort of story that might have passed for an April Fools' joke a few days ago, but it is the real deal: personal transporter pioneer Segway has partnered with beleaguered U.S. automaker General Motors to develop a new working concept of an electric vehicle under the moniker Project P.U.M.A.. The PUMA (the acronym stands for Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) is an evolution of the technology found in the Segway… Read More

You'd never guess from watching our Commander in Chief try his hand at one of the devices, but apparently it's not always operator error if someone falls off a Segway! Segway Inc., in conjunction with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a http://www.segway.com/aboutus/press_releases/pr_091406.html of its Segway Personal Transporters to address a problem which might cause the scooters to unexpectedly reverse… Read More

Segway raised eyebrows a few years ago with the unveiling of its first self-balancing, electric-powered two-wheeled human transporters. Despite some undeniably cool technology (including using gyroscopes to keep the vehicles balanced) the one-person vehicles have yet to live up to the predictions touted at their launch—namely, that they'd transform the nature of transportation and commuting, particularly in urban environments,… Read More

If you've dreamed about zipping around town

Hong Kong's WowWee Ltd., the parent company of WowWee Robotics, has become the first to license Segway's Smart Motion technology, made famous (if not yet widespread) by the Segway Human Transporter. And what does WowWee want to do with this technology? Make cool toy robots! WowWee plans to integrate Segway's Smart Motion technology in its next generation of consumer entertainment robots. WowWee's current consumer… Read More