Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen patents light-up, mobile, inflatable wind turbines

Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:47pm

Dean Kamen, noted brilliant and sometimes crazy inventor, has patented a new design for inflatable wind turbines which can double as illuminated advertising billboards. I guess free wind energy is just not quite good enough.

DVICE @ FIRST: Meet the robots (and some humans, too)

Kevin Hall

Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 1:03am

Ladies and gentlemen, the game is Breakaway. It may be tempting to think of it as soccer, but soccer players don't have piston-powerful legs or robotic arms sprouting out of their backs. In the version of Breakaway we saw, two...

The world's most creative robot builders battle it out in NYC this weekend

Kevin Hall

Friday, March 12, 2010 - 1:54pm

This weekend in New York City dozens of high schools from across the country and abroad are sending hundreds of students to battle it out in a test of robotic skill. It's the 10th anniversary of New York City robot...

8 awesome things you can implant into your body

Kevin Hall

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 7:42am

Wolverine has some fun tricks up his sleeve — and under his flesh, actually. He heals quick, his bones are made of virtually indestructible adamantium, and everybody's envious of his retractable claws. So how about the rest of us mere...

CES 2008: Segway inventor and Xena rock DVICE's panel about sci-fi's influence on tech

Monday, January 7, 2008 - 1:39pm

Dean Kamen, Lucy Lawless, Walt Mossberg and Neal Stephenson speak at DVICE's panel, "Science Fiction's Influence on Technology", at CES 2008, moderated by SCI FI Channel Executive Vice President and General Manager Dave Howe. Topics include helicopters, jet packs, Robert Heinlein, and the threat of biotechnology.

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Dean Kamen patents light-up, mobile, inflatable wind turbines

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