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Entrepreneurship for Rural Women, Brought to You by Coca Cola

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.18.2013 | Impact
Read More: Coca-Cola, Women Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Women Empowerment, Kay Koplovitz, Slingshot, Clean Water, Women in the World Conference, Dean Kamen, Women in Business, Mutar Kent, Water, Impact News
Kay Koplovitz

Women living in rural areas of Africa and India are getting a boost into entrepreneurship by Coca Cola's Mutar Kent teaming up with inventor Dean Kamen to distribute clean water distillers.

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This Invention Could Save Millions Of Lives

Posted 03.25.2013 | Green
Read More: Paul Lazarus, Dean Kamen Invention, Segway, World Water Day, Slingshot, Paul Lazarus Slingshot, Clean Water, Segway-Inventor, Dean Kamen, Dean Kamen Paul Lazarus, Green News

A recent invention called the Slingshot could provide freshwater to those with some of the most limited access. Inventor Dean Kamen, best known as the...

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Bill Clinton Transforms LA

Tom Teicholz | Posted 04.10.2013 | Arts
Read More: Will I Am, Bill Clinton, Education, President Bill Clinton, Alicia Keyes, Intel, Boyle Heights, Community, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dean Kamen, STEAM Eduction, STEM Education, Wellness, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

President Bill Clinton, Inventor Dean Kamen, White House Chief Technology officer Ken Park and Astronaut Leland Melvin were among the big name speakers at this year's by-invitation-only TRANS4M conference, held at the California Science Center in Los Angeles this past Thursday.

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Reinventing the Model for Solving Global Ills - Six Lessons from the Clinton Global Initiative 2012

Joan Michelson | Posted 12.03.2012 | Business
Read More: Energy, Clean Drinking Water, Women, Chelsea Clinton, Cgi, Collaboration, Design, Steven Pearlstein, Fast Company, Capitalism, Coca Cola, Segway, The Washington Post, Clinton Global Initiative, Green Connections Radio, Coke, RIck Stengel Time Magazine, Joan Michelson, Linda Tischler, President Clinton, Optimism, Dean Kamen, Business News
Joan Michelson

How do we make solid, faster progress in solving the world's most intractable problems?

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TechScape: Dean Kamen & FIRST ... Perhaps His Greatest Invention

Bill_Robinson | Posted 09.22.2012 | Home
Read More: First, Dean Kamen, Boston Scientific, Robots, John Abele, Boeing, Black Eyed Peas, Eric Schmidt, Will.I.Am, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Google, Intel, Home News
Bill_Robinson

I had never heard of FIRST before Dean Kamen mentioned it to me. There's no doubt that his passion -- one man's vision -- has created something very special.

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Arthur C. Clarke Inspired MeThen; Peter Diamandis Inspires Me Now: Lessons in Abundance and Exponential Thinking

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 06.23.2012 | Science
Read More: 3d Modelling, Peter Diamandis, Dean Kamen, Abundance, Arthur C. Clarke, Exponential Thinking, Singularity University, Science News
Kay Koplovitz

Arthur C. Clarke inspired me to envision a world fully connected. Peter Diamandis inspires me to understand a world ripe with abundance, and to imagine wondrous improvements for mankind.

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TechStar Interview: Dean Kamen

Bill_Robinson | Posted 05.20.2012 | Technology
Read More: DEKA Research, First, Dean Kamen, Baxter Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, Segway, Technology News
Bill_Robinson

For those of you who don't know Dean Kamen, you're in for a treat. For those of you that do: I hope I can still delight and surprise you with some things you may not know.

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Inflatable Wind Turbine From Segway Designer

Posted 12.05.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Video, Segway, Portable Wind Turbine, Wind Turbine, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Dean Kamen, Green Energy, Inflatable Wind Turbine, Green News

From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The inventor who gave the world the Segway – you know, that upright-riding, personal-transportation thing – is...

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Will.i.am: "There Should Be Science Programs in Every School"

Shira Lazar | Posted 10.10.2011 | Impact
Read More: Black Eyed Peas, Dean Kamen, Cbsnews, Shiralazar, Will.I.Am, Shira Lazar, What's Trending, Impact News
Shira Lazar

Seven-time Grammy award winner Will.i.am believes in the importance of science in America. He thinks it's time that our schools start focusing on the basic building block of technology.

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Science Is Rockin' Roll And Technology Is Recession Proof

Will.i.am | Posted 10.06.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Will.I.Am, Yes We Can will.i.am., wiil.i.am Science, wiil.i.am, Black Eyed Peas, u.s. Jobs, u.s. Innovation, will.i.am FIRST, Dean Kamen, First, Job Creation, Science Education, Video, Black Voices News
Will.i.am

The theory is simple -- if entertainers perform in programs like the Teen Choice Awards, then why can't we do it for our kids who get good grades?

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Revolutionary Robot Prosthesis A Gamechanger For Amputees (VIDEO)

Michael Macher | Posted 09.13.2012 | Technology
Read More: TED Talks, Dean Kamen Prosthetic Arm, Prosthetic Arm, Tedmed 2009, Tedmed, Video, The Luke Arm, Health, Dean Kamen Robotic Arm, Dean Kamen, Impactx, Robotics, Dean Kamen Arm, Health Technology, Military Families, Technology News

"You're nuts." That's what inventor and self-taught physicist Dean Kamen told the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) when they asked...

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Dean Kamen On Colbert Report: Segway Inventor Has New Device For Injured Troops (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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Last night on the Colbert Report, Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, showed off a new advanced prosthetic arm he's developed to help people with ...

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The Apple Tablet: Light Bulb or Segway?

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Iphone, Steve Jobs, Personal Computing, Ipod, Light Bulb, Apple, Cupertino, Apple Tablet, Dean Kamen, Segue, System X, Pixar, Mac, Ten Commandments, Technology News
Michael B. Laskoff

This could be a 'light bulb' moment in the history of personal computing. If so, I'm betting that we'll see something totally unanticipated as the prognosticators tend to guess wrong.

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7 Inventions That Are Changing The World

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Slidepoll, Xo Laptops, Energy Innovation, Hybrid Cars, Smarthand, Lifestick, Inventions, Innovation, Dean Kamen, Zipcar, Impact News

Digging around for Impact stories can bring up a lot of bad news. Extreme poverty and widespread injustice can seem omnipresent. That's why, today, we...

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Blowing Things Up: In Praise of a Pyrotechnical Education

Dan Dubno | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Competitiveness, Research, Homeland Security, Science, Barack Obama, Explosion, Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Education, Office of Naval Research, Dan Dubno, Obama Budget, Dean Kamen, Robotics, FIRST Robotics National Championship, Bombing, Darpa, China, Business News
Dan Dubno

I'm not suggesting we raise a nation of pyromaniacs. But youthful experimentation is a prerequisite to innovation, to giving kids "license to think outside the box."

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