Dean Kamen isn't scared of failure. He is, after all, the inventor of one of the most famous flops (so far) of the 21st century: the Segway.
A famed inventor is tackling the problem of dirty water with a purifying machine called the Slingshot.
If you listen to inventor Dean Kamen, the biggest health problem facing the world today is not AIDS, obesity or malnutrition. It's a shortage of water.
Segway scooter inventor Dean Kamen freely admits it: He often suffers sleepless nights wrestling over whether to quit a project that's not panning out.
I'll let you in on a troubling secret: Ever since I married into a golf family, I've struggled to hide my lack of enthusiasm for the game (it's impossible to hide my lack of talent). It's not the sport itself; it's the time it takes to play 18 holes. Granted, I'm a speed junkie, but after the first nine, I'm done. On a patient day. The poky carts only add to my pain.
After six weeks of strategy and sweat, a coalition of high school teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada took the top prize at the FIRST Robotics competition, otherwise known as the "Superbowl of Smarts."
"Robot coming through. 'Scuse me, robot coming through."
Hands on" doesn't adequately describe Steve Sanghi's impulse for tinkering - whether it means donning a bunny suit at his company's chip-manufacturing plant to help troubleshoot defects, mixing it ...
Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don't have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world--and an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs.
Is the world getting better or worse?
Dean Kamen didn't set out to bring water and electricity to the Third World. In the early 1990s, when he was working on a revolutionary stair-climbing wheelchair, he began tinkering with an unusual...
Technology for the planet's poor countries has always meant hand-me-downs from the developed world--things like the automobile, coal-fueled electric power, and wire-line telephones. But among those...
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Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer hadn't even stepped off the Segway before the backlash began. Last December inventor Dean Kamen ended months of speculation by unveiling his newest invention: a ...
Forgive me for feeling crushed. It's not that I doubt for a moment that the recently rolled-out Segway human transporter--you know, the scooter--will transform every walking moment of our lives. Bu...
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Not that long ago, Americans would herald each new technological innovation with a standing ovation; now the hecklers seem to be drowning out the applause.
In my boyhood dreams, I'd glide like a feather on a breeze, down hallways and through rooms, my toes floating a foot or so above the floor. When I took a ride on inventor Dean Kamen's already famou...
Science isn't only for people who tape their glasses. That's the message of U.S. First, a nonprofit organization that holds an annual competition in which professional engineers and high school stu...
REFORMERS of America's badly ailing education system don't lack for clever, effective solutions. Their critical failing is that, like automakers in the days before Henry Ford, they haven't successf...
THE GIANTS of American industry may be making waking noises as the recession ends, but ever more managers and professionals are no longer listening. They are tuned instead to the homey clatter of a...
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