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Segway inventor takes aim at thirst with 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 inventor reveals 'toughest question'

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.

Fortune: A Segway for golf nuts

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.

Robotic trio wins 'Super Bowl of Smarts'

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."

'Super Bowl of Smarts' brings on robot invasion

"Robot coming through. 'Scuse me, robot coming through."

Business 2.0: Tiny Chip, Giant Ambition

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 ...

Business 2.0: Segway creator unveils his next act

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.

Fortune: To Hell in a Handbasket...or to Heaven via High Tech? Deep thinkers debate the state of the world at FORTUNE's Aspen conference.

Is the world getting better or worse?

Fortune: The Little Engine That Might

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...

Fortune: Two Ways To Help The Third World Talk is cheap. These techies are actually making stuff happen.

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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