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Segway Inc. is a Chinese owned, formerly American manufacturer of two-wheeled personal transporters, chiefly through its Segway PT and Segway miniPro product lines. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1999, the company's name is a homophone of the word " segue ".
It was brought to market in 2001 as the Segway HT, and then subsequently as the Segway PT. HT is an initialism for "human transporter" and PT for "personal transporter." Ninebot, a Beijing -based transportation robotics startup rival, acquired Segway Inc. in April 2015, broadening the company to include other transportation devices.
On the morning of 26 September 2010, Heselden was riding his Segway while walking his dog near Thorp Arch; when he reversed the Segway to allow a fellow dog walker to get past him, he fell from a nearby cliff into the River Wharfe. [8] [9] A "rugged country version" of a Segway was found in the water.
It could be a company's worst marketing nightmare: its owner dying while using its product. But for Segway, the death of owner Jimi Heselden, 62, may become a more dire issue. Heselden's death ...
Changing a company for the better requires full-on engagement from the leadership, but many of them have difficulty staying in control throughout the process. ... Segway brought in a new CEO who ...
The aerospace company plans to launch a tender offer in December that would value it at more than $250 billion, Reuters reported. That valuation is up from an estimated $210 billion in June.
He is the main subject of Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World, a nonfiction narrative book by journalist Steve Kemper published by Harvard Business School Press in 2003 (released in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel). [11] His company, DEKA, annually creates intricate mechanical presents for him.
Segways have been very popular across a variety of uses but this invention brings the self-balancing vehicle to the next level.