Editing Dean Kamen (section)

===Inventions===
Kamen is known best for inventing the product that eventually became known as the [[Segway PT]], an electric, self-balancing human transporter with a computer-controlled [[gyroscope|gyroscopic]] stabilization and control system. The device is balanced on two parallel wheels and is controlled by moving body weight. The machine's development was the object of much speculation and hype after segments of a book quoting [[Steve Jobs]] and other notable [[information technology]] visionaries espousing its society-revolutionizing potential were leaked in December 2001.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Heilemann |first1=John |title=Reinventing the Wheel |url=http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=May 7, 2019 |date=December 2, 2001}}</ref>

Kamen was already a successful inventor: his company ''Auto Syringe'' manufactures and markets the first drug [[infusion pump]].<ref name= CodeNG>{{Cite book|title=Code Name Ginger: the story behind Segway and Dean Kamen's quest to invent a new world| first= Steve|last=Kemper|publisher=Harvard Business School Press|isbn=1-57851-673-0|year=2003}}</ref>{{rp|13}}  His company [[DEKA (company)|DEKA]] also holds patents for the technology used in portable [[Kidney dialysis|dialysis]] machines, an insulin pump (based on the drug infusion pump technology),<ref name= CodeNG />{{rp|19}} and an all-terrain electric [[wheelchair]] known as the [[iBOT]], using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.

[[File:Dean kamen.jpg|thumb|left|Kamen on one of his inventions, the Segway|200px]]
[[File:Kamen still.JPG|thumb|right|Kamen Stirling Generator 10 coupled to Water Still 12 (from {{US patent|7,340,879}})]]
Kamen has worked extensively on a project involving [[Stirling engine]] designs, attempting to create two machines: one that would generate power, and the [[Slingshot (water vapor distillation system)|Slingshot]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions|url=https://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-millions/|access-date=2020-06-25|website=Popular Science|date=June 16, 2014|language=en}}</ref> that would serve as a [[water purification]] system.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/colbert-and-kam|title=Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems|last=Whitesides|first=Loretta Hidalgo|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|WIRED]]|date=March 25, 2008| access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>  He hopes the project will help improve living standards in developing countries.<ref name= "wired">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html|title=Breakout Artist |first= Scott| last= Kirsner| magazine= [[Wired (magazine)|WIRED]]|date=January 9, 2000|access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{Cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/22/dean-kamen-interview|title=Segway inventor on future technology |first= Mark|last=Harris|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=July 22, 2009|access-date=September 18, 2009}}</ref> Kamen has a [[patent]] on his water purifier,<ref>{{US patent|7340879}}</ref> and other patents pending.  In 2014, the film ''SlingShot'' was released, detailing Kamen's quest to use his vapor compression distiller to fix the world's water crisis.<ref>{{Cite web| title= About{{!}}SlingShot|url= http://www.slingshotdoc.com/about-slingshot-dean-kamen/|website= slingshotdoc.com |access-date= January 4, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101455/http://www.slingshotdoc.com/about-slingshot-dean-kamen/| archive-date= March 4, 2016|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all}}</ref>

Kamen is also the co-inventor of a [[pneumatics|compressed air]] device that would launch a human into the air in order to quickly launch [[SWAT]] teams or other emergency workers to the roofs of tall, inaccessible buildings.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/man_slinger|title=DARPA plots emergency man-cannon|first=Chris|last=Williams| work=[[The Register]]| date= May 16, 2006| access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{USPTO Application|docnum=20060086349}}</ref>

In 2009 Kamen stated that his company [[DEKA (company)|DEKA]] was now working on [[solar power]]ed inventions.<ref name= "guardian"/>

Kamen and DEKA also developed the DEKA Arm System or "[[Luke Arm|Luke]]", a [[prosthetic]] arm replacement that offers its user much more fine motor control than traditional prosthetic limbs. It was approved for use by the US [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) in May 2014, and DEKA is looking for partners to mass-produce the prosthesis.<ref>{{cite web |last= Lawler| first= Richard|title=FDA approves a life-like prosthetic arm from the man who invented the Segway |url= https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/09/luke-bionic-arm-approved-by-fda| website= [[Engadget]]| date=September 5, 2014 |access-date= August 25, 2019}}</ref>