Tuesday 22 April 2014

On Jimi Heselden

I'm pretty sure that everyone has heard of the Segway Personal Transporter. Even noted Internet comedian Maddox has poked fun at it. I'd heard a few years ago that Segway inventor Dean Kamen had died while riding his Segway, but subsequent attempts to confirm it proved it to be inaccurate. However, while looking it up for some reason on Sunday, I discovered the truth (and, most likely, the source of my own confusion): it wasn't Kamen who died, but the owner of the Segway Company. What makes it noteworthy for me is that the deceased, Jimi Heselden, was also the owner of HESCO Bastion, a company that makes blast barriers used around the world, notably in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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