In 2007, his residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind,[14] located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester. The house has at least four levels and is very eclectically conceived, with such things as: hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a collection of vintage wheelchairs; spiral staircases; at least one secret passage; an observation tower; a fully equipped machine shop; and a huge cast iron steam engine which once belonged to Henry Ford (built into the multi-story center atrium of the house) which Kamen is working to convert into a Stirling engine-powered kinetic sculpture.[citation needed] Kamen owns and pilots an Embraer Phenom 300 light jet aircraft[46] and three Enstrom helicopters, including a 280FX, a 480, and a 480B.[47][48][49] He regularly commutes to work via his helicopters and had a hangar built into his house.[50] In 2016 he flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the opening of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St. Louis.[51]
From my understanding, dude rode the thing off a pier and drowned… ☹️
Now I’m wondering if both things happened and they were two separate people from Segway…
Here’s the cliff guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
He just bought the company though, he wasn’t the inventor.
Either way, damn.
Meanwhile, the actual inventor of the Segway:
https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/visionaries/dean-kamen/#gallery-video=xrd3NzMTrT70W_Xeog0BoBo35sBqnCz_
Sounds pretty amazing tbh
apparently he got his fortune by inventing a compact flood control fortification later appropriated for military defense
His bartender convinced him to buy Segway. True story.