Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery 187
mattnyc99 writes "The new issue of Esquire has a long, in-depth, intricate profile of Dean Kamen and his quest to invent a better world. Earlier this month, we discussed Kamen's Sterling-electric car, but this piece goes into much more detail about how that engine works — he got the original idea from the upmodded Henry Ford artifact in the basement of his insane island lab — and about how his inventions often go overlooked, including the Slingshot water purifier that Stephen Colbert made famous but that no one has actually bought yet. Quoting: 'To get the Slingshot to the 20 percent of the world that doesn't have electricity, Kamen came up with the idea of splitting it in half. Leaving the Stirling aside, he would try to develop a market for his distiller in parts of the developing world that have electricity but not reliable clean water. "There are five hundred thousand little stores in Mexico," he says. "If we can put one of these in 10 percent of them, that's enough to put it in production." That may be the killer app for the distiller.' So, is this guy all hype with overpriced devices, or is time for someone to take his genius (Segway aside) to the mass market?"
question (Score:4, Funny)
has he managed to solve the pickle matrix in his hamburger earmuffs yet?
Re:Or... (Score:5, Funny)
Nice segue.
Re:Something completely different.. (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I consider that a feature, not a bug.
typo in headline (Score:3, Funny)
Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Greekery
There, fixed it for you.
Re:Something completely different.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Or... (Score:3, Funny)
It must be run by Oompa Loompa's
Re:Better water purification (Score:5, Funny)
Uhm, trying putting the straw in your mouth instead :-)
Re:Use your arms (Score:4, Funny)
ah screw it, I'll just strain it through my moustache like I usually do.
Re:Better water purification (Score:0, Funny)
I thought that was a terrible idea too, until I used that theory with the morning after pill just to make sure it would work in case of a burst condom.
20 minutes later I was chewing through bathroom towels like a moth doing bong hits just trying to staunch the bleeding as internal organs erupted from my anus. Yes, it confirmed that they would work, but I think in hind sight I would have rather risked the need for a coat hanger or a couple punches to the gut than go through that ordeal in the first place.
To this day, my o-ring still just isn't the same.
Re:Better water purification (Score:3, Funny)
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Yeah... whoa. That's totally *not* what reverse osmosis means.