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

To: The Street who wrote (47)	1/12/2001 2:03:37 PM
From: Hank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 377

The patent seems to be more applicable to the iBot wheelchair than IT. I fail to see how a wheeled device could be "more significant than the internet" and help to eliminate pollution unless it was powered by a novel power source of some kind. The same goes for that airplane jet pack somebody described. Not novel enough to have cities built around it in my book. No, it has to be something completely new and extraordinary to have the effect that is predicted. Quantum teleportation has been done with sub atomic particles but people? I would be shocked and in disbelief if they could do that already.

To: The Street who wrote (47)	1/12/2001 11:20:53 PM
From: Perry Ganz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 377

I really like this guy When Kamen wanted to erect a wind turbine on North Dumpling and the state of New York objected, he seceded from the US. Though the secession has never been officially recognized, he signed a nonaggression pact with his friend, then-President George Bush, and enlisted Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's as "joint chiefs of ice cream." North Dumpling has its own flag, its own anthem, a one-ship navy, and its own currency. One bill, which Kamen carries in his wallet, is the value of pi. "You can't make change for it," he says with a grin. "It's a transcendental function." Thanks for the links steet Perry