Larry Mantle talks with author and journalist Steve Kemper about his new book, Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World (Harvard Business School Press).

BOSTON – Segway LLC has issued a voluntary recall of its Human Transporter (HT) product after revealing that riders might fall from the device as the batteries are drained of power, the U.S. Consumer ...

DEAN KAMEN: What Henry Ford did in the last century for rural America is what this device will do in the next century for city dwellers. The man - Dean Kamen, an inventor. The big idea - the Segway.

The Segway Human Transporter, the self-balancing electric scooter that has kept technophiles abuzz for the past two years, ranks among the best-selling items on Amazon.com, the online retailer said ...

IT, Ginger, the "it's-not-a-scooter" scooter, the Segway Human Transporter , whatever you want to call it, has had a tough time catching on. From cities giving it the cold shoulder to consumers being ...

NEW YORK -- Whirring quietly down the sidewalk on East 42nd Street and into a Starbucks one recent afternoon, Chandler Hovey drew looks and comments from passers-by. What was most eye-catching was his ...

HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The Segway Human Transporter was hyped as the invention that would revolutionize the way humans get from point A to point B. That hasn't happened. But the Segway may be something else ...

For those who adhere to the "it's not what you know, but what you drive" school of success, 2003 offers coolness on two wheels or four. Soon to hit the streets (and sidewalks) is the Segway Human ...

Larry Lambeth is like the rest of us. He gets up for work in the morning like every one else. But there's something extraordinary in Lambeth's daily commute -- something revolutionary. Lambeth doesn't ...

While walking the aisles at April's Embedded Systems Conference, someone accused me of creating "media hype" via my recent column on living with the risk of terrorist ...

~ Gauging its prospects is difficult because the company will not reveal whether it is profitable. Thieves used to break into as many as five cars a week in the parking garage at Los Angeles' Union ...