Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas

Re:Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas by Animats on Monday April 11, 2016 @01:07PM (#11473156)

How's his water purifier doing? Lots of press coverage up to 2012, then silence. It worked, but the cost of the prototypes was insanely high. It was supposed to become cheap.

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Re:Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas by burkaman on Monday April 11, 2016 @01:25PM (#11473363)

"In 2011, Coke and Deka sent 15 Slingshots to Ghana for a six-month field test where they provided clean water to five rural schools. In fall 2013, Coke and its partners announced a goal to place up to 2,000 units (either standalone Slingshots or Ekocenters) around Africa, Asia, and Latin America by the end of 2015."

- http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-k...

I think they are slowly getting out there, but they're still very expensive.

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Re:Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas by justin66 on Monday April 11, 2016 @02:58PM (#11474193)

> It was supposed to become cheap.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that. A Segway scooter still costs over six thousand dollars.

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Re:Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas by shpx on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:47PM (#11474544)

These days we call them hoverboards and you can buy them for a few hundred bucks from china.

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