FHM includes a quick bit about 10 mph on page 16 of their June edition. It’s a pretty sweet pick up.

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Still, just to prove how easy it is to come up with technological firsts these days, last November the manufacturers proudly announced that a team of riders had completed the first-ever transcontinental crossing of the United States on a Segway HT. The team’s name: “America at 10 mph” (16 kph)

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One hundred and two days. That’s how long it took Josh Caldwell and Hunter Weeks to travel from Seattle to Boston on a Segway — a journey that takes roughly five hours by plane.

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Sync Magazine ran a cool spot about Josh Caldwell and the 10 mph production. The magazine is available in bookstores until March 15.

“Technology everywhere is all focused on increasing speed and efficiency,” documentary director Hunter Weeks wrote in an e-mail. “We forced it to do the opposite, and it was pretty amazing what we captured.”

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It’s been two months since a Denver-based film crew finished shooting America at 10 MPH, a documentary about a road trip on a Segway scooter. Filmmaker Josh Caldwell speaks to NPR’s Liane Hansen about the last leg of the journey and the post-production process.

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

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

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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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.

In the early years of the automotive era, daring journeys of what were then unimaginable distances, over roads that would hardly qualify by today’s standards, helped establish the reliability of the new technology. Men like Erwin G. Baker, known as Cannonball, became legends on these coast-to-coast odysseys, setting records with each attempt. Now four 20-somethings are on their way from Seattle to Boston on a pair of Segway Human Transporters, the motorized, self-balancing scooters whose inventor has predicted that they will open a revolutionary era in personal transportation.

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Imagine slowing life down so much you actually take time to get to know strangers every day. Now imagine that the strangers are worth getting to know. That’s been the life for three men and a woman, all in their 20s, who are doing what many people only dream of: quitting their office jobs and driving across the country.

Like many people, Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell, both 27, got disgusted with sitting in a cubicle, working the standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift. But unlike those who kept with the status quo, Weeks and Caldwell decided to chuck it all and wander across America.

Last week, Tech Talk introduced you to four Principia College graduates and their two companions traveling across the country using a Segway, the two-wheeled scooter being promoted as the urban commuter tool of the future.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Inside a coffee house in southwest Topeka, a documentary film crew interviewed Topekans last week for a sense of the modern-day American dream.

Maureen Coulter and her family had some unexpected houseguests this weekend. Coulter received a call from a group of twenty-somethings last week who had given up their corporate jobs to travel cross country on a Segway scooter, asking for a place to stay.

You know a vehicle has arrived when somebody decides to drive it from coast to coast in the United States and make a documentary about his experience. But until now, no one has ever attempted the 6,900-kilometre trek on an electric scooter.

In early August, three film makers set out from Seattle to make America at 10 mph, a documentary about a road trip on a scooter known as a Segway. Filmmaker Josh Caldwell has been navigating the scooter. NPR’s Liane Hansen checks in with Caldwell at about the midway point on his journey, in Norton, Kansas.

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5280, the popular monthly entertainment magazine in Denver, CO ran a nice spot on America at 10 mph. They spoke about the project and even mentioned Alby, as this edition included a Pet Guide.

While most people ride Segway scooters for fun or to run short errands, Josh Caldwell is on a bigger mission. He’s taking his scooter on a cross-country trip, rolling him on the longest-known trek of its kind, from Seattle to Boston.

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