Philip BendallMay 29, 20120 comments

Touring Christchurch by Segway PT (plus The Beatles and Fred Flintstone)

Urban Wheels has been offering Segway Tours of Christchurch for more than 5 years. The Press feature writer Margaret Agnew took a tour of the earthquake damaged CBD recently, accompanied...

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Philip BendallMay 24, 20120 comments

Woz and the Segway PT (did Steve Jobs get it wrong?)

Steve Wozniak is a long-time fan of the Segway Personal Transporter (PT), and has owned many examples. He even purchased a yellow i180 model from Segway New Zealand in 2006....

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Philip BendallMay 20, 20120 comments

Fish & Chips with Woz

by Philip Bendall (Managing Director of Segway New Zealand) Today I ate fish & chips* with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple - perhaps the most valuable company in the world...

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Philip BendallMay 16, 20120 comments

Uni-Pod pre-dates Honda's UNI-CUB by 33 years

(or, Predicting the Future: Part 2) Automobile Quarterly is an American hardbound, advertising-free periodical first published in 1963. Describing itself as "The connoisseur's magazine of motoring today, yesterday and tomorrow"...

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Philip BendallMay 16, 20120 comments

See us at SpeedShow - 21-22 July 2012

We love the SpeedShow and this year's event (21-22 July) is going to be awesome. In addition to every Segway Personal Transporter (PT) there is going to be just about...

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Philip BendallMay 8, 20120 comments

USA Today gets around Christchurch with Urban Wheels Segway Tour

USA Today travel writer Liz Lewis recommends taking a Segway Tour as the best way to discover quake-damaged Christchurch, in an article published in today's issue. Since the earthquakes, Christchurch...

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Philip BendallMay 7, 20120 comments

InfoKey Programming Tool gets software upgrade, goes mobile [updated]

The Segway InfoKey Programming Tool is the device used by Segway Dealers to initially program blank Segway wireless InfoKeys. It can also be used to reprogram existing InfoKeys with new,...

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Philip BendallMay 1, 20120 comments

EMEX Day 2 today

Today is the second day of EMEX 2012 (1-3 May at Auckland Showgrounds), where Segway New Zealand is showcasing how the Segway Personal Transporter (PT) delivered cost-effective, profit-boosting solutions at...

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Philip BendallApr 30, 20120 comments

University of Canterbury upgrades first of two PTs used for campus mail delivery

Canterbury University was the first in the Southern Hemisphere to deploy both security staff and mail delivery staff on Segway Personal Transporters back in 2006. This initiative has been so...

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Philip BendallApr 28, 20120 comments

EMEX 2012 this week: visit Segway NZ at site 4058

Segway New Zealand returns to EMEX this week, from Tuesday 1 May until Thursday 3 May 2012 at Auckland Showgrounds, Greenland. Auckland hosts this Engineering, Machinery and Electronics Exhibition only...

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Philip BendallApr 24, 20120 comments

Auckland's 'BIG little City Guides' clock up almost 6,000km on PTs

Eighteen months after their introduction, Auckland's 'BIG little City Guides' (ambassadors) have clocked up almost 6,000km on the pair of Segway i2 Patrollers. The guides are a Heart of the...

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Philip BendallApr 20, 20120 comments

Business networking by playing Segway Polo and other 21st century sports

Business and sport go together. Think golf, think sponsorship and branding, think corporate boxes, or breaking the ice by talking about last night's game before a meeting starts. While the...

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Philip BendallApr 18, 20120 comments

Every Day is Earth Day with a Segway PT

Earth Day is 22 April. At Segway, it's Every Day! Today, Segway’s Personal Transporter (PT) is used by many different kinds of people and in a wide variety of ways....

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Philip BendallApr 11, 20120 comments

Freeview New Zealand: new tv advert features character on Segway PT

As the deadline for the end of analogue television broadcasting in New Zealand approaches, Freeview and rival SkyTV are ramping up advertising for their respective digital solutions. The latest Freeview...

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Philip BendallApr 2, 20120 comments

Segway on Q - new video promotes Queenstown tours

Segway on Q is one of New Zealand's longest-established Segway Tour businesses. Kevin and Joanne Hey pioneered guided tours along the picturesque Queenstown lakefront in 2006. Today, their business has...

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Philip BendallApr 1, 20120 comments

Self-balancing for mobility, productivity and fun (even on snow and ice)

When controversial broadcaster Paul Henry interviewed Philip Bendall (Managing Director of Segway New Zealand Limited) last month on RadioLIVE he was initially disbelieving that a Segway Personal Transporter (PT) is...

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Philip BendallMar 29, 20120 comments

Wounded warriors to receive free Segway PTs on deck of aircraft carrier

Wounded soldiers from USA's wars overseas are to receive free Segway Personal Transporters (PTs) in a ceremony on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Midway on 4 April 2012....

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Philip BendallMar 22, 20120 comments

Students mount frickin' laser beam on Segway PT at Auckland University School of Engineering

Segway New Zealand's managing director Philip Bendall completed a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland. So he was thrilled when Dr Karl Stol of the School of...

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