The Pentagon's "Star Wars" Robotic Arm Just Got FDA Approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the DEKA Arm System for amputees. Named in honor of Luke Skywalker,…
FDA Approves First Prosthesis Controlled by Muscle Electrical Signals
Dean Kamen's DEKA Arm is an electronic prosthetic that mimics natural arm and hand movement with an amazing level of…
Will.i.am Hosts Dean Kamen's Robotics Championship
As the story goes, the Black Eyed Peas' frontman Will.i.am was just cruising on his Segway, thinking about technology…
Watch Dean Kamen's Prosthetic 'Luke' Arm Be Awesome at the Grocery Store
I can hardly walk through a grocery store aisle without clumsily knocking something over. An amputee equipped with…
FIRST Champion Robots (and the Students Who Built Them)
Last Saturday, Atlanta's Georgia Dome was packed with students cheering on the FIRST Robotics Competition national…
FIRST 2010: America's Engineering Whiz Kids Face Off In Robot Duels
Tomorrow, squads of rough and tumble robots will face off in an elaborate competition involving hard-hitting soccer in…
Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb
Dean Kamen is both notoriously shy and uninterested when it comes to media appearances, but Stephen Colbert was able to…
Caption Contest: "Why Aren't You Following Me on Twitter?"
Everybody in this photo: Jared Cohen, US State Department; Dave Morin, Facebook; John Cusack; Dean Kamen; Bill Gates;…
Where Were You When the Segway Changed Everything?
The early '00s saw a lot of breathless reporting about the Segway. Steve Jobs endorsed it and Time magazine ran a…
When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were…
What Kind of Home Would Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Live In?
One without a whole bunch of ramps, surprisingly. The interior has living spaces and working spaces, housing both a lab…
Segway Shirt Clarifies Just How You 'Roll'
In case your obnoxious Segway weren't clarification enough, this Segway shirt reading "that's how I roll" should set…
Four Segways Enter, Three Segways Leave (One Faceplants)
There's nothing more you have to do than point and laugh at this poor woman and her Segway. You would have thought the …
The Next Gadget Gods
This past year, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began to focus on priorities other than tech. Who will fill their winged…
Dean Kamen Struggles With the Idea of Giving Up on the Segway
A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that…
Dean Kamen's Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid
The father of the Segway and 'Luke' cyborg arm has taken North Dumpling Island-his private Bond villain hideaway off…
Dean Kamen's Full Bionic Luke Arm Video from All Things D
Click to viewWe showed you some of the video from Dean Kamen's appearance at the All Things D: D6 conference back in May
All Things D: Dean Kamen on His Mind-Controlled Cyborg "Luke" Arm
The inventor Dean Kamen is being interviewed at All Things D now. He's here to talk about his cyborg prosthetic "Luke…
Colbert: First Vid of Dean Kamen's Miracle Water Distiller
Caught for the first time on video, Segway inventor Dean Kamen presented his Vapor Compression Distiller on last…
Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Makes Cameo at CES
So we're hanging in the robotics area of the Sands Convention Hall, about to talk to WowWee, when our contact says,…