The trendy hands-free scooters has prompted a new lawsuit. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The year is 2015. Marty McFly travels to the “future.” There, he beholds the power of the ...

Shane Chen, inventor of the Solowheel and founder of the company that makes and distributes it, Inventist. (Faith Cathcart/The Oregonian) When Shane Chen caught a glimpse of a motorized unicycle at a ...

Shane Chen's Inventist is the firm responsible for an e-unicycle known as the Solowheel and the much copied Hovertrax "hoverboard." Now the team has hit Kickstarter with a new smaller and lighter ...

Shane Chen is an inventor. Or to use his own words, he is a “tinkerer” – a fellow who makes a living from molding mechanisms into a multitude of quirky creations, including a watercraft powered by ...

Chen developed and patented the first self-balancing Hovertrax scooter, which became known as the Hoverboard, back in 2012. Despite millions of Chinese copycats flooding the market since it was ...

BEDFORD, NH and BEIJING, CHINA--(Marketwired - September 16, 2015) - Segway Inc. ("Segway"), the world's leading provider of personal electronic transportation, along with DEKA Products Limited ...

It’s unclear when the Solowheel conquered Beijing. The personal transport device is a self-balancing electric unicycle with a hubcap-sized wheel and footholds on either side — a sort of Segway but on ...

The fat wheeled eniCycle, the stylish and graceful U3 from Honda or the slightly scary prospect of the UnoMoto have all shared more in common than being one-wheeled, self-balancing personal transport ...

CAMAS, WA--(Marketwired - November 20, 2015) - Inventist, the inventor of the Hovertrax (also known as self-balancing scooter and hoverboard) has now won its first case against the largest of the ...

Shane Chen is obsessed with transportation. The 59-year-old inventor has designed unicycles, skateboards and fitness devices, manufactured by his Portland, Washington-based company, Inventist. Beijing ...

The history of the hoverboard is rife with patent wars, companies suing each other over who invented it first, and poorly made copycats that caught on fire. US entrepreneur Shane Chen was the first to ...