Dean Kamen
| Dean Kamen | |
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Kamen on one of his inventions, the Segway
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| Born |
April 5, 1951 Long Island, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Bedford, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Invention of the iBot Wheelchair, the Segway and founder of FIRST North Dumpling Island |
| Awards |
Hoover Medal (1995) |
Hoover Medal (1995)
Heinz Award (1999)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2000)
Lemelson–MIT Prize (2002)
ASME Medal (2007)
Lindbergh Award (2011)
Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is most known for his invention of the Segway.
Born to a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the drug infusion pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.
Kamen is best known for inventing the product that eventually became known as the Segway PT, an electric, self-balancing human transporter with a computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system. The device is balanced 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 was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing the first drug infusion pump and starting a company, AutoSyringe, to market and manufacture the pump. His company DEKA also holds patents for the technology used in a portable dialysis machines, an insulin pump (based on the drug infusion pump technology), and an all-terrain electric wheelchair known as the iBOT, using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.
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