The Segway

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how the Segway personal transportation device is a significant improvement over other types of devices that attempt to do the same thing, i.e. safely and quickly transport the human body on short distances where a car is simply to much of a bother or unnecessarily harmful to the environment, but where simply walking is out of the question for time and energy purposes. The paper also looks at the creator behind the device and how the Segway is popular among security and law enforcement populations as well as golfers and also people who are disabled and unable to walk long distances but still able to stand.

Outline:
History of Segway and Dean Kamen
Segway Technology
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Segway's inventor has a long history of electronic and engineering marvels, who took significant risks to gain acceptance in developing his ideas. One of his most remarkable feats was at the age of 16 landing a boring job building light boxes for a demonstrator, he gained access to the New York Museum of Natural History and secretly built them a new light box system for their planetarium, after already having been turned down when he requested the job. Once his creation was complete, a creation he completed using $80 dollars in parts he purchased from Radio Shack, his only remaining wages from the boring job he had just quite, he strong armed the director of the museum into coming and taking a look at what he had done. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• DEKA: Dean Kamen, 2001 <http://www.dekaresearch.com/aboutDean.html>.
• Oswald, Ed BetaNews May 31, 2006, <http://www.betanews.com/article/Segway_Offers_Financing_to_Push_Sales/1149106883>.
• Kemper, Steve. Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World. Framingham MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
• Segway Simply Moving, "Technology Innovations" 2008, <http://www.segway.com/about-segway/technology-innovations.php>.
• Segway Simply Moving, "The Science of Segway" 2008,

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