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Dean Kamen is an engineer and inventor known particularly for his highly original forms of human transportation. ... Kamen, however, insists that the i-bot is not a wheelchair; it’s “a piece of equipment, like a helicopter.”
When Kamen was young, he frequently found himself in contention with his Long Island New York public school teachers. ... If he were presented with “Select the word that doesn’t belong: add, subtract, multiply, increase,” Kamen might choose “add” because it didn’t have eight letters.
Today, “life” and “work” are synonymous to Kamen; his definition of vacation is “the time that it takes to go from one project to another. ... After dining, Kamen either returns to his office or goes home to his thirty-thousand-square-foot mansion, complete with two helicopters, a Hummer, a fully equipped machine shop, and a full-size baseball diamond in the backyard. Kamen has no family; he says “I can start the biggest technical project in the world, but I think getting in relationships is riskier and to me scarier.
Approximate Word count = 806
Approximate Pages = 3.2
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