Dean Kamen wants to 'to fix the world' - using a 200-year-old engine
By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, April 9, 2009
Dean Kamen is considered one of the era’s great inventors yet he is subject to ridicule for inventing the Segway. His old company, Segway, recently announced the LUNA their 2 seater vehicle. Genius is usually eccentric and Kamen marches to the beat of his own drum. I came across a recent profile to share.
The Telegraph.co.uk
Some see Dean Kamen as a Willy Wonka character whose most famous invention – the Segway personal transporter – is still the butt of jokes. Others compare him to Henry Ford. His next project, after perfecting an electric car, is to ‘to fix the world’ – using a 200-year-old engine nobody else thinks can work. By Adam Higginbotham
Ten years ago, on the summit of a hill in the verdant New England countryside, at the highest point he could find between Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire, Dean Kamen designed and built the sprawling, hexagonal house he called Westwind. For the rest of the story
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