Segway Inventor Turns To Environment

MBCook writes "CNN has an article in which they talk about Dean Kamen's latest inventions designed to provide water to rural villages. His goal is also to provide electricity and opportunities for entrepreneurship. From the article: 'Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water,' says Kamen. 'The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day, and we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.'"

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Wait...

[LeonGeeste]

Someone remind me, is this the same guy who used a gyroscope with a 60 Hz sampling rate for stability rather than, I don't know, a third wheel?

i remember

[hiphophap]

I remember all the hype regarding the segway. Everyone was saying it was the key to everything.

now fast forward to the present.

I've only seen one of them in real life actually being used. None of my friends use it.

so is this going to be another hype engine? he should prehaps donate it too all needy people, if it is so good.