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Changing the world isn't easy. It's a lesson Dean Kamen, the guy who invented the Segway "personal transporter," has learned the hard way. When he unveiled his self-balancing, battery-powered technological marvel (it seems a sin to call it a scooter) in 2001, Kamen predicted that cities would in the future banish cars from their congested hearts, and wildly popular Segways would fill downtown pavements...
Those kinds of pleasant collisions happen a lot when Bono is around. Ashley Judd mixes in the greenroom at a U2 show with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter and an aborning machine that makes even the filthiest water drinkable. Bill Gates goes to a nightclub, gets called a "bad mother______" by Diddy and understands that it is intended as a compliment. Of course, if Bono were to rely solely on his ability to get powerful people in a room with famous people and then hit them with a speech about moral obligations, he would be little more than...
DIED. MICHAEL KAMEN, 55, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated composer who scored more than 80 movies and television shows, including all four Lethal Weapon films, three Die Hard pictures and HBO's Band of Brothers series; of an apparent heart attack; in London...
What it does is simple. A few years ago, Kamen was working on an electric generator for use in underdeveloped villages when he noticed that it produced about 1,000 watts of waste heat. Kamen decided to try to use that heat to make clean water. There are 6,000 deaths from contaminated water every day, according to the U.N., and safe water is one of the world's more urgent problems. Kamen's device uses that extra heat to distill water--boil it and condense it. Nothing new about that Kamen has invented lots of things, but he didn...
...Kamen knows major health organizations probably won't buy into unproved technology, so he's taking his invention on the road. He's exploring distribution strategies in Bangladesh, and later this month he'll head to Africa to meet with Rwanda's President. He knows he has a lot to prove. "I have no credibility," he admits. "We have to get them in the field and document that they work." He believes, perhaps innocently, that he can save a lot of lives. Sometimes when you want to change the world, it helps to be a little naive...