Dean Kamen

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Will.i.am Hosts Dean Kamen’s Robotics Championship

8:40PM August 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

As the story goes, the Black Eyed Peas’ frontman Will.i.am was just cruising on his Segway, thinking about technology and stuff — when he decided to call up Dean Kamen and got hoodwinked into hosting the FIRST Robotics Championship. More »


Science

Watch Dean Kamen’s Awesome Prosthetic Arm At The Supermarket

5:40AM October 23, 2010 | Sam Biddle

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I can hardly walk through a supermarket aisle without clumsily knocking something over. An amputee equipped with Dean Kamen’s incredible, shoe-controlled prosthetic arm, however, selects produce with grace. It’s enough to make you forget about the Segway. More »


FIRST Champion Robots (And The Students Who Built Them)

2:20AM April 21, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Last Saturday, Atlanta’s Georgia Dome was packed to the brim with students cheering on the FIRST Robotics Competition national championship. We covered the final matches via live feed, but these up-close photos truly capture the event’s electric atmosphere. More »


FIRST 2010: Engineering Whiz Kids Face Off In Robot Duels

5:20AM April 17, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Tomorrow, squads of rough and tumble robots will face off in an elaborate competition involving a hard-hitting soccer in a robo-ready jungle gym arena. The craziest part: all the bots are built by high school students. More »


Science

Dean Kamen Appears On Colbert Report Armed With Bionic Limb

11:26PM April 7, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Dean Kamen is both notoriously shy and uninterested when it comes to media appearances, but Stephen Colbert was able to lure him in with his earnest, unrelenting, right-wing agenda. And Kamen even brought his DARPA-funded bionic Luke Arm. Full video: More »


Geek Out

Caption Contest: “Why Aren’t You Following Me On Twitter?”

9:17AM February 20, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Everybody in this photo: Jared Cohen, US State Department; Dave Morin, Facebook; John Cusack; Dean Kamen; Bill Gates; Arianna Huffington; Michael Shermer, Skeptic Magazine; and Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing. So, uh, you guys tell us what’s going on here. More »


Cars

Where Were You When The Segway Changed Everything?

4:00PM December 30, 2009 | Anna Jane Grossman

The early ’00s saw a lot of breathless reporting about the Segway. Steve Jobs endorsed it and Time magazine ran a massive piece with the humbling title “Reinventing The Wheel” – the conclusion of three months of in-depth reportage. More »


When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men

6:20AM July 16, 2009 | John Herrman

Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979: More »


What Kind of Home Would Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Live In?

10:00AM May 22, 2009 | Jason Chen

One without a whole bunch of ramps, surprisingly. The interior has living spaces and working spaces, housing both a lab and a crazy wooden maze of banisters and staircases.

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Cars

Dean Kamen Struggles With The Idea Of Giving Up On The Segway

10:30AM January 17, 2009 | Sean Fallon

A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out.

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