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I'm not sure this article is all that accurate. "Segway" is a brand that has passed through several hands after Dean Kaman sold it a while back. This sounds t
by ntbnt 6y ago
I'm not sure this article is all that accurate.
"Segway" is a brand that has passed through several hands after Dean Kaman sold it a while back.
This sounds to me like the New Hampshire plant is no longer going to manufacture Segway units, rather than the technology being discontinued altogether.
Ninebot of China acquired Segway and uses the IP to defend their self-balancing inventions.
https://time.com/3822962/segway-ninebot-china/ https://time.com/3822962/segway-ninebot-china/
It looks like ninebot still produces the Segway in China, and I don't imagine will stop soon.
https://www.segway.com/professionals https://www.segway.com/professionals
- demadog 6y agoThis is 100% right. Company was bought and many of the great patent technology has been put to good use. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/segway-history/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/segway-history/index.htm...
- passivepinetree 6y agoThe article mentions all of that content (though without those links). Perhaps they changed it? It's a fastcompany domain now.
- ntbnt 6y agoOh, I see that it does, sorry, skimmed the article. I still think the main news here is just that the legacy Segway PT unit is being discontinued, along with the US manufacturing facilities in New Hampshire, where it doesn't make sense for a Chinese company to be manufacturing. Seems to me like Mark Wilson of Fast company is trying to make a bigger story out of that, when I'm not sure there is one. Fast Company has learned that the Segway brand will retire the last Segway as we know it, the Segway PT. Manufacturing at the Bedford, New Hampshire, plant will stop July 15
- sumo89 6y agoThat's the key here, there is absolutely a market for the Segwey product, it's just not the one the Segwey company was aiming for.