MooPig Inventor Minute Department :: Dean Kamen--An Inventor’s Unconventional Life

This Machine is Designed to Make 1000 Liters of Clean Water a Day...
Mixed Mashed Article by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 29, 2014  |  BryanTX

"...'The myth of invention,' he said, 'is that innovators like Kamen “snap their fingers and things happen. The reality is that it can take 20 years to make something happen.”

"...What Kamen does differently from other entrepreneurs or business people, and what makes him successful, Lazarus said, is that he looks at a problem from the bottom up, rather than the top down. And he doesn’t take “no” for an answer (Nicola Smith. Friday, August 8, 2014.  LINK)..."

"... One of the great things about Dean is how childlike he can be. He’s non-cynical, and non-biased, which helps you to break through to seeing things differently. My admiration for him is how much of that he retains,” Lazarus said. (ibid. Nicola Smith) ..."

An Inventor’s Unconventional Life | Valley News: "Kamen has spent his life coming up with ideas for how to make life better for people — better dialysis machines, better wheelchairs, better heart stents. He’s probably best known for inventing the Segway, a motorized scooter that he hoped would reduce our reliance on cars for transportation. Although it generated enormous press, the Segway didn’t quite take off the way Kamen anticipated it would. What becomes clear as the 93-minute film progresses is how little Kamen cares about doing things the conventional way"
'via Blog this'
"...There is a eureka moment when Kamen realizes that there is one multi-national corporation that gets its product into the remotest of places, and that is the Coca-Cola Co. So Kamen goes after Coca-Cola to team up on distributing the systems, and persuades company officials to sign on. Even so, that’s hardly the end of the story.

“There are 206 countries with 206 different solutions. Nothing you do in Ghana applies to Ecuador and nothing you do in Ecuador applies to Mexico,” Lazarus said. (ibid. Nicola Smith)..."

CONCLUSION
Dean Kamen has the ability to think from the bottom up on problems of catastrophic proportions. A billion people worldwide without clean water sparks his ingenuity. He then invents, designs, and builds a solution.



___________________________________Reference
http://www.vnews.com/lifetimes/13045391-95/an-inventors-unconventional-life
http://youtu.be/VOQbVD7F1f4

MooPig Site Review :: "Dean Kamen's New Stirling Engine will Get you Off the Grid"

"...Will the utility-run electric grid only be used as back up to consumers and businesses? (LINK)..."
Mixed Martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 29, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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That's a great question. American industry stumbles along when it comes to long term commitments to energy sources other than our standard pole and wire power supply. No one in North America is independent of our electric grid. We all plug in our devices and run our things from our 100 year-old utility-run grid.

"... It’s amazing that in this day and age, when investment bankers routinely take home $50 million paychecks, we can’t seem to work out how to help the majority of people on this planet from being at risk through lack of water and power. Astonishing. Here’s hoping things change sooner rather than later (Nigel. red ferret. March 29, 2008. LINK)..."

Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K: "The Stirling is quieter than an internal combustion engine, and it’s more efficient because the heat is retained inside the engine to do more work rather than allowed to escape to the environment."
'via Blog this'

"...Though Stirlings are highly efficient, they haven’t caught on because it takes them a while to warm up and they can’t change power output quickly. That makes them unworkable for cars and trucks, but potentially ideal both for power generation and water heating. More than just a backup generator, these machines, depending on the price of natural gas, could also provide round-the-clock power to a home or business. Beats solar panels (LINK)..."

”We don’t think we should be just selling a box,” says Kamen. “We think we should be part of a system of the future, powering the evolution of microgrids.” (ibid. Forbes) Fuel for his engine is not a problem, "... 'We have powered them using cow dung in Bangladesh, and even by burning olive oil,' Kamen says..."

CONCLUSION
So in 10 years will everyone have one?

“I’d say yes. Ten years from today the probability that you are depending on wires hanging on tree branches is as likely as that you’ll still be installing land lines for telephones. Close to zero. (ibid. Forbes)”



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http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/07/02/dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-could-power-the-world/
http://segwayecotour.com/Segways/About-the-inventor-Dean-Kamen
http://www.redferret.net/?p=10222
http://www.martinlamonica.com/energy/
http://www.keelynet.com/indexoct12.html

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "the Workforce"

Attrition: Robots are Here to Stay
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 18, 2013 | Bryan TX

Historically, technology takes jobs, and, makes jobs for us. Some are thinking that technology today is outdistancing human performance at the jobsites; sorting robots, manufacturing robots, stock-trading robots.




It is puzzling, what is this interviewee selling? Is he a whistle blower or a lobbyist for robotics? We think he is trying to warn humanity that technology is going to over take it. Some may call that DOOM-SAYER -- we call it Attrition.

" ... The world is fundamentally changing; the economic assumptions that currently gird our society will be meaningless in as soon as a few decades. And we’d better get ready to prepare for that shift—if we don’t adjust the current socio-economic structure, we’re going to have mass joblessness, and society-wide chaos. We’re going to need to fundamentally reform not just our policies but our attitudes towards work. We’re going to need to re-engineer the social safety net from the ground up to account for the fact that robots are taking over on the labor front. (Brian Merchant. motherboard.vice.com | Posted: Jan 15, 2013. HERE) ... "

The winner in robotics development is Manufacturing and Distribution. Simple robots doing simple but necessary tasks; it is a remarkable scene. "What’s the point of building society around a 40-hour work week, after all, when robots are doing all the heavy lifting? (ibid.) "


_________________________Reference
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138922n
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/merchant20130115?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EthicalTechnology+Ethical+Technology#When:18:35:58Z
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138927n
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138926n
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138928n

MooPig Site Review :: Dean Kamen "Inventor" -- Astounding

Page from FORTUNE: " ... Dean Kamen showed some video of the impressive, mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm he’s invented. Kamen has been showing the arm off since early 2007 ..."
http://redd.it/2mdk70

Dean Kamen invented and developed and built the Segway Transportation System 2001... a crazy pedestrian two wheeler... that you see around at tourist touring places like the Alamo, White House, or Greenwich Village. The tourist gets to rent out for his family Segways to toddle around a place as long as it is under 7% grade... has pedestrian access, and there are no balustrades close-spaced to block you.

Okay so it has limitations and is expensive to make, and could be dangerous if a tourist is trying to Segway Tour the Grand Canyon ... so what?

Maybe Segway is just plain "ahead of its time." Eh? This article says the inventor "Dean Kamen" is not scared of failure. He is undaunted by the slow growth of the Segway Market. He ploughs ahead to the brink of post-modern man's development, "churning out inventions" that boggle and tempt. He has a share of future markets thinks FORTUNE Magazine.

Other Notes: " ... Kamen began his career with medical inventions, including the first portable insulin pump. Later he developed a prototype wheelchair called iBot which allows users to climb stairs and raise themselves upright. He is the founder of FIRST -- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology -- a program to encourage young scientists and inventors. (LINK) ... "

" ... Kamen's father Jack Kamen was a comic-book artist who drew for Weird Science and MAD magazines... Dean Kamen attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute but did not earn a degree... Kamen invented the heart stent used to repair the heart of Vice President Dick Cheney. ... "
Concerning the following -- "OH MY GOD !!! The LUKE ARM ..." -- I am astounded.
(GADGET LAB)
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