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Biotech / Medical : Dean Kamen and Ginger ??? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jaime Leiderman who wrote (1)	1/11/2001 3:00:47 PM
From: George the Greek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 377

I would've started the thread ten minutes ago if someone else did not. This Ginger story sounds pretty real. Dean Kamen has invented some interesting devices. Amongst them, I have seen a video clip of his iBot, a computer-controlled 4-wheel wheelchair, which can rotate up on only two of the wheels, and ascend or descend a staircase, while maintaining the balance of the load perfectly - impressive. Dean Kamen is also described as iconoclastic, and seems to be capable of thinking outside the (corporate) box. Anyone's guess as to what this device might be. My whimsical guess is that, from the way it is tossed around as a revolutionary device "around which cities might be built," and because there is said to be an element of fun in it, and because it is said to ameliorate filth and inconvenience, and because it is talked about in an urban setting, and because it can be (and in fact was) built up in ten minutes with basic tools by a few people (like the inventor, Bezos, Jobs, and the VC guys) from a few duffle bags full of parts, because it is discussed as a revolutionary device, because it sounds like an expression of discontinuous technology, it might be a Personal Antigravity Transport. Damn! It's about time someone invented that! :-) Thank you Dean Kamen. If it's going to clean up the cities, it might as well run on some kind of Free Energy source, as well, but that might be asking too much. Let's hope the marketplace, the regulators, and the government are as excited as the technologists and the venture capitalists. George