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...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...cautionary tale of Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s designed a "car of the future" packed with such safety innovations as a padded dashboard, disk brakes and safety glass--a car so far ahead of its time that only 51 were ever produced. In fact, the annals of high-tech history contain remarkably few cases in which the most innovative technology has emerged triumphant in the marketplace...
Dean Kamen at last unveiled his latest invention—a high-tech scooter—on “Good Morning America” yesterday after months of media speculation about the invention that some have said “will change the world...
Kamen only revealed the nature of Ginger to a few investors and other high-tech luminaries, such as Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. Last spring, Jobs described Ginger as having the potential to be as big of a deal as the personal computer and said that “cities will be built around...
...systems such as Echelon, an intelligence cooperative run by the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, are expected to get more funding, while Internet service providers will be expected to divulge more information about their users. In a time of crisis, it's natural to look for a high-tech fix. But the truth is that technology alone won't stop terrorists...