Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dean Lawrence Kamen (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɪ n /; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT , [ 2 ] as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers .
Segway Inc. was acquired by British businessman Jimi Heselden from its U.S. inventor Dean Kamen in December 2009. A year later, Heselden died after he "plunged into the River Wharfe while riding a rugged country version" of Segway PT. [19] [20] Police using a Segway in Stockholm, Sweden
Segway Inc's investors remained optimistic. Dean Kamen predicted that the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy" [12] and John Doerr, a venture capitalist who invested in the company, [13] predicted that Segway Inc would be the fastest company to reach US$1 billion in sales. [12] By 2007, cumulative sales were ...
At the 2002 dinner were guests like Dean Kamen, Linda Stone, Richard Saul Wurman, Steve Petranek, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff, Kara Swisher, Nathan Myhrvold, Christopher J. Anderson, ...
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
Slingshot is a water purification device created by inventor Dean Kamen. [1] Powered by a Stirling engine running on a combustible fuel source, it claims to be able to produce drinking water from almost any source [2] by means of vapor compression distillation, [3] requires no filters, and can operate using cow dung as fuel.
The parents of a 13-year-old girl who was run over by a suicidal driver in Malibu in 2010 are appealing to California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop the felon from being released on parole.
In 1986, Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and founder of FIRST, purchased the island for US$2,500,000 [2] ($6.95 million in 2023). After a denial from local officials to build his own wind turbine on the island, Kamen "seceded" from the United States.