Tag: segway

The company behind the Segway Human Transporter has agreed to recall the motorized scooters because riders have been injured falling off when its batteries are low. “The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Friday, saying that three people had been injured. One suffered a head wound and needed stitches,” reports AP. “The recall involves about 6,000 of the single-rider, two-wheeled scooters that can travel up to 12 mph.

An excerpt from “Code Name Ginger,” a new book on the development of the Segway scooter, gives a glimpse of a “combustive” meeting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended to give his first impressions of the device. Among several pieces of advice, Jobs reportedly said: “I think it sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it’s not elegant, it doesn’t feel anthropomorphic.