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...media frenzy surrounding Ginger has been building since last January when Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) revealed that it paid a $250,000 advance for a book about Ginger without even knowing what the invention...
America’s love affair—or one night stand, as the case may be—with Ginger began when Inside.com got wind of a $250,000 book deal between the Harvard Business School Press (HBSP) and superstar inventor Dean Kamen along with his ghostwriter, journalist Steve Kemper. Kamen was so secretive about his invention that HBSP had to sign on to the deal without even knowing what it was Kamen had come up with. All HBSP had to go on was the effusive praise of techno-luminaries like William H. Gates IV, class...
Hollis Heimbouch, who bought the book for HBSP, still refuses to comment, but according to a patent Kamen filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Ginger appears to be a scooter with a very advanced engine. What’s more, sources suggest that since Kamen’s stair-climbing wheelchair succeeded only through innovations in balancing technology, we can only imagine that Kamen’s scooter utilizes many of the same physics principles—making for a potentially compact, fast, easy-to-ride, non-polluting personal mobility vehicle...
Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) paid $250,000 for exclusive rights to chronicle the story of Ginger but has no knowledge of the invention itself, and refused to comment on the latest speculations...
Hollis Heimbouch, senior editor at HBSP, said she had little information with which to evaluate the book besides the reputation of the machine's inventor and the testimonies of a few witnesses to the machine who had been sworn to secrecy...