Amid yesterday's frenetic and often badly-worded Tweeting, you could be forgiven for thinking that Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, had died. In fact British businessman James Heselden, who owned the Segway company, was the one who met an untimely demise.
Who was James Heselden? Turns out he was an inventor too, and he made his fortune developing the Hesco Bastion, a clever system of constructing barriers that is used for both flood control and military fortifications.
