Segway New Zealand has a Hands-free/Steadicam-ready Segway Personal Transporter for hire. This knee-steer combination is specially configured for film, television and commercial video production. We also hire the complete Hands-free/Steadicam-ready kit separately. This can be attached to any Segway i2/x2 model in 2 minutes. We hire and ship this unit nationwide and overseas. This is a beautifully finished Hands-free kit designed and perfected by professional cameraman Geoff Andrews of Moving Media from Hamilton (see our 2014 post Moving Media fine-tunes hands-free Steadicam kit). In addition to providing comfortable, adjustable knee-steer operation, special features include a seat to rest on between takes, a sliding mass on a horizontal rod to trim self-balancing for different loadings, and a powerful front headlight. As we wrote about here in 2013, Segway PTs have been used as "camera dolly" platforms since 2004. One of the world's pioneers in this field was of this application was Wellington's Hamish McIntyre (using a Segway e167 model). He used it on NZ feature films including Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Chronicles of Narnia, Eagle vs Shark and River Queen. Sports cameramen Rhys Duncan (Broadcast Arts Video Unit, Auckland), James Staunton (Sky TV Sport, Auckland) and camerawoman Rebecca (Bex) Wilson-Jennings (SteadiBex Steadicam, Wellington) are often seen racing up and down the sidelines of televised sporting events throughout New Zealand (see Rugby: Segway was the winner on the day). James recently traded in his well-worn Segway x2 on the latest x2 SE model. Rhys Duncan has travelled the world with his hands-free Segway PT to film many international sporting events, including the Olympic Games in Rio last year. Here is a great photo of Rhys taken at that event in Brazil.