Who is dean kamen and what does he do for a living?”
Dean L. Kamen (born 5 April 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father was Jack Kamen, an illustrator of Mad Magazine, Weird Science and other EC Comics. Inventions Kamen is best known for inventing the product that eventually became known as the Segway PT, an electric, self-balancing human transporter with a complex, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system. The device balances on two parallel wheels and is controlled by moving body weight. The machine’s development was the object of much speculation and hype after segments of a book quoting Steve Jobs and other notable IT visionaries espousing its society-revolutionizing potential were leaked in December 2001. Kamen Stirling Generator 10 coupled to Water Still 12 (from US patent 7,340,879) Kamen has worked extensively on a project involving Stirling engine design
One of the scientists Ling asked to join the team is Dean Kamen, a sort of rock star in the world of inventors. His creations include dozens of medical devices, and the Segway. They are inventions which have made him a multimillionaire. “When the folks from the Defense Department came to this office and said, ‘Here’s what we need,’ what did they tell you?” Pelley asked. “We want these kids to have something put back on them that will essentially allow one of these kids to pick up a raisin or a grape off a table, know the difference without looking at it. That is an extraordinary goal,” Kamen explained. “He basically said, ‘You’re crazy.’ That’s what he told us,” Ling remembered. “He said flat out, he and he himself, who’s a crazy guy himself, I mean he is very innovative thinking. He’s a brilliant man, totally brilliant man, but mad scientist.” Kamen told Pelley he thought the Pentagon and DARPA were unbelievably optimistic in their expectations and that he told them that.
