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Re: Nobel Peace Prize for Dean Kamen

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
I think you've got the Segway and ibot confused. The ibot wheelchair was designed for handicapped to be able to navigate landscapes that they normally can't (quick example, stairs). The segway was supposed to "revolutionize personal travel".
More likely Jay has some knowledge of the early development stages. It is true some of Dean's earliest patent publications in this area (PCT applications dated more than ten years ago) describe mobility benefits for the disabled and depict embodiments that strongly resemble what later came to be called a Segway, in addition to some that strongly resemble what later came to be called an iBot.

The claims/goals related to revolutionizing personal travel were part of the wildly overblown "IT" publicity campaign, several years later.
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