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Archive for November, 2004

NECN Newsnight

Friday, November 19th, 2004

NECN

Newsnight’s host Jim Braude interviewed Josh Caldwell, Hunter Weeks, and Gannon Weeks on New England Cable News. The spot lasted approximately nine minutes.

Boston Globe

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Boston Globe

Out among the snowdrifts and station wagons of Brookline, five windblown travelers, their faces reddened from weeks on the road, pulled up to the B&D Deli on Beacon Street for a little sustenance.
Behind them were 4,000 miles of highway, the snows of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and the lightning in Colorado. Oh, and one llama ranch in Wyoming.

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C|Net News.com (interview)

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

CNET News.com

Dean Kamen designed his Segway transporter to serve as a cheap, clean and flexible form of urban transit, not as a platform for traversing national parks and encountering wildlife. But that hasn’t stopped former vacuum cleaner salesman Josh Caldwell, 27, who has put the Segway to perhaps its most grueling test yet by piloting the scooter across the length of the United States.

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ABC News: Stealing Scenes

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

ABC News

Hunter Weeks was interviewed for ABC News’ Stealing Scenes while in New York. The segment aired when the team was reaching Boston.

CNET News.com

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

CNET News.com

A team of documentary filmmakers completed its quest to pilot the Segway Human Transporter across the United States on Tuesday as rider Josh Caldwell successfully navigated his trusty scooter across an invisible finish line in plain view of the Atlantic Ocean. Looking tired and cold, but enthused by his achievement, Caldwell posed for pictures in front of a small gathering of interested onlookers, reporters and Segway enthusiasts.

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MSNBC (online)

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

MSNBC

When Lewis and Clark went looking for America, they used horses. The settlers that followed them used covered wagons, then trains. When Buz and Tod started on their own televised search via “Route 66,” it was in a snazzy ‘59 Corvette. In “Easy Rider,” Captain America and Billy tried to find America while riding on laid-back Harley Davidson Panheads. Alon Waisman and his friends are trying yet another way.