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...what is It? Ten months later, we still don't know for sure, and no one who does is talking, least of all inventor Dean Kamen, 49. The only public utterance from the denim-clad millionaire was an early statement that "the leaked proposal quoted several prominent technology leaders out of context, without their doubts, risks and maybes included." (He also reportedly cut off all contact with Kemper, although Kemper has denied this.) The project was promising, Kamen said, but the expectations generated by the press were "beyond whimsical...
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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...
...brand, Heelys, top, features a single removable "stealth skate" in each heel that lets users walk or, with wheels engaged, zoom up to 32 m.p.h. They're not a far cry from the old wheeled shoes that were briefly popular in the '70s, bottom. But Heelys inventor Roger Adams claims sales this year have doubled every month; 200,000 units were shipped in July. Rollerbladers, get ready to step aside...
...Bahamas. Her two subsequent albums also produced chart-topping singles and sold millions. In 2000 she co-starred with Jet Li in the film Romeo Must Die and was slated to appear in the next two installments of The Matrix. DIED. YOSHIAKI SHIRAISHI, 87, a former sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father...