Dean Kamen Concepts

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam Grant · 2 Feb 2016 · 410pp · 101,260 words

better at deciding when to roll the dice. A Random Walk on the Creative Tightrope The inventor of the Segway is a technological whiz named Dean Kamen, whose closet is stocked with one outfit: a denim shirt, jeans, and work boots. When I asked venture capitalists to describe Kamen, the most common

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writes. “#24 will suck. Then #25 will be a gift from the headline gods and will make you a legend.” While working on the Segway, Dean Kamen was aware of the blind variations that mark the creative process. With more than 440 patents to his name, he had plenty of misses as

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that proved most popular with her audience. “Twitter and Facebook have tremendously helped me decide what people care about,” Winstead explains. When developing the Segway, Dean Kamen didn’t open the door to this kind of feedback. Concerned that someone would steal his idea, or that the fundamental concept would become public

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ideas.”* The Hazards of Intuition: Where Steve Jobs Went Wrong The first time Steve Jobs stepped on a Segway, he refused to climb off. When Dean Kamen gave other potential investors a turn, Jobs begrudgingly handed it over, but soon cut in. Jobs invited Kamen over for dinner, and as journalist Steve

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bother to check his intuition by gathering input from enough creators with relevant domain knowledge. And his intuition led him further astray when he encountered Dean Kamen’s presentation style. The Perils of Passion When Kamen pitched the Segway, he spoke passionately about how developing nations like China and India were building

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more critical feedback might have rolled in to prevent it from being made—or to generate a more useful design. Before it was too late, Dean Kamen would have learned to make it practical or licensed the technology to someone who could. The Segway may have failed, but Kamen is still a

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, I’m a genius. That’s because the future cannot be predicted. The sooner you learn it, the sooner you can be good at it.” Dean Kamen has moved on to unveil a series of new inventions, back in the health-care space where he made his original mark. There’s a

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weren’t hindered: Personal interviews with Lon Binder, December 30, 2014, and Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, February 2, 2015. As an inventor: Adam Higginbotham, “Dean Kamen’s Mission to Bring Unlimited Clean Water to the Developing World,” Wired, August 13, 2013, www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/08/features/engine

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-of-progress; Christopher Helman, “Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You off the Grid for Under $10K,” Forbes, July 2, 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/07

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/02/dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-could-power-the-world; Erico Guizzo, “Dean Kamen’s ‘Luke Arm’ Prosthesis Receives FDA Approval,” IEEE Spectrum, May 13, 2014, http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/biomedical/bionics

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/dean-kamen-luke-arm-prosthesis-receives-fda-approval. 3: Out on a Limb Out on a Limb: Susan J. Ashford, Nancy P. Rothbard, Sandy Kristin Piderit, and

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fast was one of the forces behind the flop of the Segway. Randy Komisar “counseled patience,” journalist Steve Kemper writes in Reinventing the Wheel, advising Dean Kamen’s team to “go slow and build a track record.” Before the launch, Steve Jobs urged the team to do a complete redesign. Then, they

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words

work together like never before, we like our chances. But in light of these recent reports, sooner rather than later. And this brings us to Dean Kamen. Dean Kamen is a kind of geek superhero, a nerd Batman in a denim work shirt. For starters, he lives in a secret lair—an island fortress

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,” January 17, 2018. See: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2018. Dean Kamen: Dean Kamen, author interview, 2018. For more information about Dean Kamen, see his bio on the FIRST Robotics website here: https://www.firstinspires.org/about/leadership/dean-kamen. we recounted the story of Kamen’s “Slingshot”: Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance

Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words

possible to keep rivals from stealing their ideas. Steve Jobs was famous for insisting on strict secrecy and then introducing new products with a flourish. Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway—the two-wheel, self-balancing (via gyroscope stabilization) “personal transporter” unveiled in late 2001—and the startup’s founder, was

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obstacles—help make the founder’s dream come true. Shai Agassi rivaled Jobs in his ability to spin up a reality distortion field. So did Dean Kamen, Segway’s charismatic founder. Like Agassi, Kamen believed he could save the planet, once electric-powered Segways replaced automobiles in cities around the world. And

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Vlaskovits, “Henry Ford, Innovation, and That ‘Faster Horse’ Quote,” Harvard Business Review blog, Aug. 29, 2011. Dean Kamen, the inventor: Details in this paragraph are from Steve Kemper, Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen’s Quest to Invent a New World (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003). ADL projections are

Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words

scooter, now relabeled the Segway, which was said to revolutionize urban transportation, and grant that this unlikely prediction was actually true. How could the inventor, Dean Kamen, profit from this knowledge? There was a point in the development of the scooter at which Mr. Kamen was the only one to know that

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto · 10 Oct 2011 · 692pp · 127,032 words

, though the time given next Tuesday [9:01 and 48 seconds in the morning] is the literal interpretation of US census projections.”32 As inventor Dean Kamen says, “We get what we celebrate. If we celebrate actors and celebrity, we get the balloon boy and stupid people acting out to get on

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, Kathryn Hinsch, Roald Hoffman, John Holdren, Rush Holt, Doug Holtz-Eakin, Al Hurd, Shirley Ann Jackson, Thomas Campbell Jackson, Mariela Jaskelioff, James Jensen, Eric Jolly, Dean Kamen, Steve Kelley, Don Kennedy, Alex King, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Barbara Kline Pope, Sara Kloek, Kevin Knobloch, Kei Koizumi, Lawrence Krauss, Paul Kurtz, Eric Lander, Neal Lane

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

by Steven Johnson · 18 Oct 2006 · 304pp · 88,773 words

. Some of the most ingenious solutions now being proposed take us back to the waste-recycling visions that captivated so many Victorian minds. The inventor Dean Kamen has developed two affiliated machines—each the size of a dishwasher—that together can provide electricity and clean water to rural villages or shantytown communities

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024

years, nanoengineered materials will enable filters to work faster and be very inexpensive. An especially promising emerging technology is the Slingshot water machine, invented by Dean Kamen (born 1951).[248] It is a relatively compact device—about the size of a small refrigerator—that can produce totally pure water that meets the

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,” Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, February 4, 2019, https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/microfiber-matters [inactive]. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 247 For more on Dean Kamen’s Slingshot technology, see “Slingshot Water Purifier,” Atlas Initiative Group, YouTube video, February 11, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_T9MiZKRs; Tom Foster

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Invention Could Bring Clean Water to Millions,” Popular Science, June 16, 2014, https://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-millions. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 248 For a long but clear and entertaining video on how Stirling engines work and

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words

warfighters who had lost limbs in war. Major news organizations wrote stories about the DEKA arm, hailing it as revolutionary, spectacular, and astounding. In 2009, Dean Kamen, DEKA’s founder, recalled on 60 Minutes what it was like when DARPA officials came to him proposing to build a robotic arm. “They said

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Piano with a Robotic Hand,” MIT Technology Review, July 25, 2007. 11 “The Intrinsic hand”: Jonathan Kuniholm, “Open Arms,” IEEE Spectrum, March 1, 2009. 12 Dean Kamen: Kamen interview with Scott Pelley, CBS News, 60 Minutes, April 10, 2009. 13 yet to find a partner: Rhodi Lee, “FDA Approves DEKA Arm System

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg · 13 Apr 2017

machine that can purify 250 gallons of water per day for a few dollars worth of energy. This is a remarkable breakthrough, which its inventor Dean Kamen believes can be the type of game-changer that could end water-borne diseases that kill two million people a year. But at present, each

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). Care for the swelling population of elderly citizens will be managed in great part by machines that can dispense proper doses of medicine, provide locomotion (Dean Kamen has also invented the iBOT, a motorized wheelchair),5 perform surgeries, and, through future generations of telepresence and other communication technology, keep their trusts in

Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact

by Steven Kotler · 11 May 2015 · 294pp · 80,084 words

that’s what happened.” Meanwhile, with all the wounded soldiers returning from battle, the military continued to fund bionic research. In 2006, DARPA contracted inventor Dean Kamen, who specializes in revolutionary medical devices, to develop a new kind of arm. As Kamen put it, “DARPA wanted me to build an arm-hand