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Dean Lawrence Kamen (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɪ n /; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT , [ 2 ] as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers .
A Segway is a two-wheeled, ... Segway Inc. was acquired by British businessman Jimi Heselden from its U.S. inventor Dean Kamen in December 2009. A year later, ...
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 ".
Before the Segway made him famous, inventor Dean Kamen had already spent decades revolutionizing medical devices: infusion pumps, insulin pumps, stents, dialysis machines. Kamen's boldest idea ...
More than 40 years and 1,000 or so patents after selling his first company, AutoSyringe, to healthcare giant Baxter, Dean Kamen still gets a charge describing breakthrough innovation. It's been ...
In 1986, Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and founder of FIRST, purchased the island for US$2,500,000 [2] ($6.95 million in 2023). After a denial from local officials to build his own wind turbine on the island, Kamen "seceded" from the United States.
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 ...
The Segway PT, a non-medical device, was spun off during product development of the iBOT, leveraging the same core technology. [7] During development, the iBOT was nicknamed Fred, short for Fred Upstairs, a pun on Fred Astaire, while the Segway was nicknamed Ginger, after Fred Astaire’s dance partner Ginger Rogers.