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I can hardly walk through a supermarket aisle without clumsily knocking something over. An amputee equipped with Dean Kamen’s incredible, shoe-controlled prosthetic arm, however, selects produce with grace. It’s enough to make you forget about the Segway. More »
The early ’00s saw a lot of breathless reporting about the Segway. Steve Jobs endorsed it and Time magazine ran a massive piece with the humbling title “Reinventing The Wheel” – the conclusion of three months of in-depth reportage. More »
Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979: More »
One without a whole bunch of ramps, surprisingly. The interior has living spaces and working spaces, housing both a lab and a crazy wooden maze of banisters and staircases.
A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out.
