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Dean Kamen's Newest Invention: A Stirling Hybrid Scooter

Dean Kamen's Segway has been a modest success, but it certainly hasn't become "to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy," as the inventor once predicted. Still, that hasn't stopped Kamen from continuing to ...READ»

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Twenty Tweets #16

Am beginning to create some sensible order around tweets - so that it remains a fun thing to do but also begin to arrive with significant life purpose.  What is obvious to me is that I am currently subscribed mostly to the ...READ»

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SmartHand: Cyborg Limbs Will Feel Like User's Own

SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»

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Searching for New Directions

Will we manage to get back in the fast lane of growth?READ»

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Terminator Tech Isn't as Far-Off as You Think

Do you remember seeing your first Terminator movie, and getting that creepy, itchy, uncomfortable feeling at the thought of a piece of autonomous intelligent machinery killing humans with electronic efficiency? It's not quite time ...READ»

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Orbis EV Challenges the Segway's Domination of the One-Wheeled EV Market

The Segway hasn't been the runaway hit that inventor Dean Kamen hoped--only 50,000 have been sold in seven years--but that doesn't mean there isn't room for a little healthy competition. The Orbis, a one-wheeled self-balancing urban ...READ»

Making a Map to a New World

For Bruce Mau, design is a way to help solve the planet's biggest problems. That's why he hopes to start a global conversation about how to create change in the world.READ»

Free ____ Inside

I have been intrigued about Free Gift Inside since Rich wrote his review last month. Obviously there is the similarity in title to Seth Godin's Free Prize Inside and they both make references to cereal. I decided to a more ...READ»

Fast Talk: Mother (and Fathers) of Invention

How do new products happen? We asked some inventive folks about coming up with ideas and seeing them through to the marketplace.READ»

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Back to the Future

This fall's New England technology summit focused on risks and opportunities facing the region's tech sector in 2002. Festivities included some good-natured political sparring and a grimly optimistic forecast from a group of gloomy VCs.READ»

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Can Design Thinking Solve Your Problems and Make You Happier?

Imagine for a moment that a business needs a radically innovative approach to a vexing problem. Designers and managers start with an intense focus on the human aspect--the real problems their customers face in daily life. Somebody ...READ»

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Why Does Tesla Get All the Love? It's Selling California, Not Cars

Yesterday, Tesla Motors fulfilled its stereotype as a Silicon Valley startup by botching the unveiling of its second major product launch, the four-door Model S sedan. The feverish response to the news--from Digg co-founder Kevin ...READ»

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Toyota Unveils Wheelchair Propelled by Thoughts Alone

We'll still have to wait a few years to mind-meld with our Camrys, but researchers at Toyota have unveiled an advanced brain sensing system that controls the movement of a wheelchair by reading a user's thoughts alone. By processing ...READ»