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	Dean Kamen: Maintaining Balance (A True Story)
		Dean is the inventor of the first intravascular stent proven to reduce arterial blockage, and the first portable dialysis machine, plus other drug delivery devices that have helped many people.
		Dean's most recent invention is the Segway™ Human Transporter, originally publicized as "Ginger" or simply "It." More than just a powered scooter, this device, which Dean demonstrated before a capacity crowd in the ballroom of the McCormick Center, is a masterpiece of engineering that could transform the way many people live.
		Dean was not merely polite, he was even encouraging to the audacious inventor, and agreed to receive more information or something, before turning to the others who were still waiting to ask questions and grovel for autographs.
	www.jefflindsay.com /kamen.shtml (947 words)

	Dean Kamen - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kamen is probably most well-known to the public from the publicity surrounding the product that eventually became known as the Segway HT—a kind of electric scooter with a complex, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system that keeps the device balanced on two horizontally-placed wheels and controlled by moving body weight.
		However, Kamen was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing a new type of mobile dialysis system for medical applications, as well as an all-terrain electric wheelchair known as the iBOT using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.
		An article states that Kamen holds that "walking is a remnant of the Dark Ages, an unpleasant time-waster that technology need eradicate" [3]; this point is often noted by critics of the Segway, who feel that walking is a natural human exercise that should be encouraged, not made obsolete, to offset declining health figures.
	micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Dean_Kamen (588 words)

	Wired 8.09: Breakout Artist
		Dean Kamen's sense of what's possible is governed by the immutable laws of nature.
		Kamen, 49, is a self-taught physicist and multimillionaire entrepreneur who lives in a hexagonally shaped house of his own design atop a hill just outside Manchester, New Hampshire.
		While Kamen was attending college in the 1970s, his brother - then a medical student and now a renowned pediatric oncologist - complained that there was no reliable way to give steady doses of drugs to patients.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.09/kamen.html (1108 words)

	About DEKA
		Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology.
		Among Dean's proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use, and enjoy science and technology.
		Kamen was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2000, awarded by President Clinton in 2000 for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology.
	www.dekaresearch.com /aboutDean.html (372 words)

	Dean Kamen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kamen is probably most well-known to the public from the publicity surrounding the product that eventually became known as the Segway HT, an electric scooter with a complex, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system that keeps the device balanced on two horizontally-placed wheels and controlled by moving body weight.
		However, Kamen was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing the AutoSyringe, a new type of mobile dialysis system for medical applications, the first insulin pump, and an all-terrain electric wheelchair known as the iBOT using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.
		Kamen was the pilot and owner of a Piper Mirage single-engine airplane which crashed on landing at Block Island State Airport on 5 September 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dean_Kamen (805 words)

	Dean Kamen
		The machine's secret development was the object of much speculation after segments of a book quoting Steve Jobs and other notable IT visionaries espousing its society-revolutionising potential were leaked in 1999.
		Kamen was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing a new type of blood pumping and filtering system for medical applications (check), as well as an all-terrain electric wheelchair using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.
		In April 2002, Kamen was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventors for his invention of the Segway and of an infusion pump for diabetics.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Dean_Kamen.html (175 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Inventor Dean Kamen has forged a career with two separate, but equally important, goals: to improve the lives of others through technology and innovation, and to promote opportunities in science, engineering and invention to young people through education.
		Kamen and his team believe the Segway HT, which now comes in a variety of models, has the potential to improve urban environments by providing an alternative mode of transport for short distance travel which could help reduce pollution and congestion.
		Kamen was also awarded a National Medal of Technology in 2000, presented by President Clinton; and in 2005 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/kamen.html (671 words)

	Segway \| About Us \| Press Releases \| $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Awarded to Dean Kamen - 23 Apr 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kamen's inventions include a wearable infusion pump that revolutionized drug delivery; a portable dialysis machine that makes it easier for patients to undergo dialysis in their own homes; a robotic wheelchair able to climb stairs and stand upright; and his latest machine—the Segway™ Personal Transporter (PT)—the first self-balancing personal transporter for short-distance travel.
		Kamen later developed a portable peritoneal dialysis machine that was easy for patients to use in the comfort of their own homes; they could even use the device while sleeping.
		Kamen founded the national non-profit organization FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science, technology and engineering in young people, their schools and their communities.
	www.segway.com /aboutus/press_releases/pr_042302b.html (1398 words)

	Wired 8.09: Breakout Artist
		Kamen supervises the 10 or so projects under way at Deka at any given time, and is rarely at his desk.
		Kamen's already been all over the Eastern time zone, but nothing is more important to him than scoring promises on behalf of First.
		Kamen is upbeat, as evidenced by his safety speech before takeoff: "In the event of an emergency, those bimbos in the high heels who served you coffee will be of absolutely no use," he says.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html (4572 words)

	Segway \| About Us \| Dean Kamen
		Dean Kamen holds more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents related to medical devices, climate control systems, and helicopter design.
		Dean thought about it and invented the portable infusion pump, enabling these patients to receive their medication without being confined to a hospital bed.
		Dean built on this success to form DEKA Research and Development, where he and his team went on to solve a wide range of medical problems.
	www.segway.com /aboutus/dean_kamen.html (235 words)

	TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Water Purifier
		A few years ago, Kamen was working on an electric generator for use in underdeveloped villages when he noticed that it produced about 1,000 watts of waste heat.
		Kamen's device uses that extra heat to distill water—boil it and condense it.
		Kamen knows major health organizations probably won't buy into unproved technology, so he's taking his invention on the road.
	www.time.com /time/2003/inventions/invwater.html (394 words)

	Winners' Circle: Dean Kamen
		Kamen invented a wearable, programmable infusion pump that delivered small, accurate doses of medicine, such as insulin, over extended periods.
		Kamen hopes that the public will adopt his self-balancing machine for traveling short distances, hence reducing pollution and congestion.
		Born in Long Island, NY in 1951, Kamen holds 150 patents and has received the Heinz Award in Technology, the Hoover Medal (1995), the Kilby Award (1994) and the National Medal of Technology presented by President Clinton (2000).
	web.mit.edu /invent/a-winners/a-kamen.html (407 words)

	Dean Kamen: Locally Powered Water Distillation System (US Patent Application 2004/0159536)
		During the test in Bangladesh, Kamen's Stirling machines created three entrepreneurs in each village: one to run the machine and sell the electricity, one to collect dung from local farmers and sell it to the first entrepreneur, and a third to lease out light bulbs (and presumably, in the future, other appliances) to the villagers.
		Kamen thinks the same approach can work with his water-cleaning machine, which he calls the Slingshot.
		Kamen thinks it could be paired with the power machine and run off the other machine's waste heat.
	www.rexresearch.com /kamen/kamen.htm (996 words)

	TIME.com: Reinventing the Wheel -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kamen had been working on Ginger for more than a decade, and although the author (with whom the inventor is no longer collaborating) never revealed what Ginger was, his precis included over-the-top assessments from some of Silicon Valley's mightiest kingpins.
		And Kamen's dreamworld won't arrive at all unless he and his team can navigate the array of obstacles that are sure to be thrown up by competitors and ever cautious regulators.
		For the past three months, Kamen has allowed TIME behind the veil of secrecy as he and his team grappled with the questions that they will confront--about everything from safety and pricing to the challenges of launching a product with the country at war and the economy in recession.
	www.time.com /time/business/article/0,8599,186660,00.html (1169 words)

	Panic in detroit!: Dean Kamen's mobility device & why it caused immoderate upset cotor city - Engineer - Segway Human ...
		When Dean Kamen, chairman of Segway LLC (Manchester, NH), rolled out onto the floor at Delphi Automotive Systems World Headquarters (Troy, MI) on his Segway Human Transporter (HT), he was surrounded by a demi-menacing group brandishing pens and microcassette recorders rather than shivs and chains.
		Kamen slipped by with an ever-so slight move: the Segway isn't an exercise device, but by permitting people to move more efficiently during their daily tasks, there could be an abundance of available time opened up for people to walk or do chin-ups or whatever.
		Kamen answered this by driving his Segway right into the reporter, who was far more stunned than he was hurt.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_2_114/ai_83037302 (872 words)

	Inventor Dean Kamen
		Dean Kamen, born 1951, is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology.
		In 1989, Dean founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), and ever since has remained its driving force, its guiding spirit, and, in the eyes of thousands of students across the country, its personal embodiment.
		Dean was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton in 2000 for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/kamen.htm (951 words)

	Social Innovation Conversations: Dean Kamen
		Although he is considered one of the preeminent inventors of the modern age, Dean Kamen describes himself as a cockroach: He simply refuses to die.
		Kamen addresses the unintended consequences of injecting new technologies into the complex systems that inhabit the planet, and reminds us: "Technology is an amplifier of human capability.
		A decade ago Dean founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), and ever since has remained its driving force, its guiding spirit, and, in the eyes of thousands of school children across the country, its personal embodiment.
	www.siconversations.org /shows/detail1059.html (732 words)

	Dean Kamen Mania \| MetaFilter
		Dean Kamen, and his fine folks at DekaResearch, appear to have invented a device which promises to save countless lives across the globe, power villages, and runs on water.
		Kamens' a heckuva lot smarter than I'll ever be, but I like his inventions much better when I hear about them after they're on the market and doing good in people's lives.
		Dean Kamen's inventions are all based on already proven technology and there is nothing truly original or extremely innovative about his work.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/21683 (4631 words)

	Dean Kamen Biography (Inventor) — Infoplease.com
		Dean Kamen is an inventor and engineer known particularly for inventing the Segway electric scooter.
		Kamen invented the heart stent used to repair the heart of Vice President Dick Cheney.
		Dean Kamen - Dean Kamen Born: 1951 Medication Infusion Pumps.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/deankamen.html (352 words)

	Dean Kamen
		Dean's vast knowledge of the physical sciences, combined with his ability to integrate the fundamental laws of physics with the most modern technologies, has led to the development of breakthrough processes and products.
		Dean's more recent inventions include: the HomeChoice™ dialysis machine, developed for Baxter (Design News' 1993 Medical Product of the Year), the Crown Stent designed for Johnson and Johnson, and the latest invention, the Independence™ 3000 IBOT™; Transporter, also developed for Johnson and Johnson.
		A decade ago Dean founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), and ever since has remained its driving force, its guiding spirit, and, in the eyes of thousands of students across the country, its personal embodiment.
	www.teamvoltage.org /2006/dean_kamen.htm (689 words)

	Babson Insight: The Iconoclast's Approach to Innovation: An Interview with Dean Kamen
		In the first few minutes of our interview with Dean Kamen we could sense that this was a unique man, motivated by issues larger than him, and possessing a passion for discovery that is matched only by his concern for solving important real world problems.
		Much of the work done by Dean and his people at DEKA has been in the healthcare field, but there is also on-going work with applications such as power generation and clean water, plus a continuing stream of confidential projects.
		Dean and his team also stand out in the way they manage themselves and their innovation process, eschewing the conventional wisdom of formal meetings, consensus building and micro-management in favor of a more passionate approach, but we’ll allow Dean to tell his own story.
	www.babsoninsight.com /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/870 (2649 words)

	Dean Kamen - what is IT?
		Kamen, who was just awarded the National Medal of Technology (the highest such award in the US) has been called "a combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison".
		Jobs told Kamen that IT would be as significant as the PC (high praise indeed from Jobs, who feels that he originated the PC).
		Passionate interest in Kamen's forthcoming project, thought by some to be "a new transportation device so revolutionary that it will force urban planners to redesign cities in its wake", has made him one of the most watched scientists on the planet.
	www.jimpinto.com /hot-tech/kamentech.html (1258 words)

	Dean Kamen Profile: BeatnikPad Writing
		Kamen invented the first portable infusion pump to assist in the reliable, scheduled delivery of drugs to hospital patients.
		To publicize the Ibot, Kamen used one to climb the stairs of the Eiffel Tower in Paris from the ground floor to the restaurant level.
		With all of the publicity surrounding his inventions, Kamen's main goal is to continue development with his company, DEKA Research and Technology, and to spread the good word about his First program.
	www.beatnikpad.com /writing/archives/000156.php (1883 words)

	Dean Kamen speaks at WPI, given medal
		Kamen said that he thinks FIRST is unique because it deals with the "demand side, not the supply side" of the education problem.
		Kamen was a member of the Class of 1973, however he did not graduate from WPI.
		Kamen was awarded an honorary bachelor's of science from the Physics department several years ago, and he has also been awarded an honorary doctorate from WPI.
	www.wpi.edu /News/TechNews/010403/kamen.shtml (551 words)

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