[SamAdams76]

I'm sure they can be manufactured cheaper too but first you need to achieve some economy of scale. The "10 a week" currently being produced, according to the article, isn't going to cut it.

[DoughtyOne]

You're right, but I do wonder how much more successful he would have been if he had began selling the Segways to business concerns at about $3000 and to the public for about $2000. As I understand it, his initial price to businesses was in excess of $4500, because he sold it as an industrial model. That might have been a big mistake.

I do believe there is a market for this device that is being overlooked. There are millions of Americans who use wheel chairs to get around, not because they can't stand, but because wheelchairs are the only alternative to walking for distance.

I have difficulty walking long distances. I stick it out, but it would be a big help for me to have one of these devices. Right now people are paying thousands for exotic wheel-chairs. Many of them could use a Segway. I think Kayman priced himself out of their range.

This technology facinates me. I'm hoping he can make a go of it, because it is an interesting device, which may suffer from having been marketed incorrectly, more than anything else.