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Photo released by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee showing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (left) with Epstein's pilot Larry Visoski.

New Batch of Epstein Photos Include Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Segway Inventor

President Trump is in there too, but you could probably guess that by now.

Politics Matt Novak

Heinz’s Condiment-Mixing Machine Makes Your Unholy Dipping Sauce Creations a Reality

If you're prolific sauce mixer, your dipping prayers have been answered with the Heinz Remix machine.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Kellogg’s Introduces Robotic Vending Machines That Mix and Match Cereals to Create the Perfect Breakfast Bowl

Similar to the soda-mixing Coca-Cola Freestyle machines introduced years ago (which were co-created by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway), Kellogg’s is rolling out a new vending machine called the Kellogg’s Bowl Bot that creates custom mixes of cereals and toppings like fresh fruits and nuts and spits out a breakfast ready bowl faster…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Segway’s Inventor Wants to Mass-Produce Human Organs—Yes, You Read That Right

You remember the Segway, the two-wheeled device that required a gymnastics-level of balance to ride standing upright? Its inventor is currently working on an incredibly ambitious project to create a massive lab for growing human organs—once the FDA approves lab-grown organs for human transplant, of course. There’s still a long way to go research-wise, but…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

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, it’s the first prosthetic arm that can carry out simultaneous multiple movements triggered by a person’s electrical signals. The device was developed by New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and Development Corp, which was founded by Dean…

io9 George Dvorsky

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 finesse. It’s controlled by electrical signals from the wearer’s muscles. This week, the DEKA Arm became the first muscle-controlled prosthetic approved by the FDA for sale to the general public. The user controls the DEKA…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

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 and stuff—when he decided to call up Dean Kamen and got hoodwinked into hosting the FIRST Robotics Championship. Now in its 20th year, the annual competition puts kids against one another in the robotics arena—only this…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

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 Dean Kamen’s incredible, shoe-controlled prosthetic arm, however, selects produce with grace. It’s enough to make you forget about the Segway. Putting away small bags and squeezing oranges demonstrates just how sophisticated the device is—we take that stuff…

Tech News Sam Biddle

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 lure him in with his earnest, unrelenting, right-wing agenda. And Kamen even brought his DARPA-funded bionic Luke Arm. Full video: Click to view Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform If you haven’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

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; Arianna Huffington; Michael Shermer, Skeptic Magazine; and (sorta) Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing. So, uh, you guys tell us what’s going on here. [BoingBoing]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

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 massive piece with the humbling title “Reinventing The Wheel”—the conclusion of three months of in-depth reportage. So what then? People in cities decided they’d rather walk and people in the suburbs decided they’d rather…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

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 busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979: Steve Jobs Click to viewNow: Just returning to daily work at Apple after a prolonged health scare, he’s still one of the most powerful—and…

Tech News John Herrman

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 and a crazy wooden maze of banisters and staircases. Kamen himself calls his house a “cross between a technology museum of old stuff and Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.” Accurate only if Willy Wonka wore a…

Tech News Jason Chen

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 things straight. Donning Dean Kamen‘s matching denim pants/denim shirt combo also works. [ExBoyfriend via ShinyShiny]

Tech News Mark Wilson

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 other woman would be the one to eat it, karmically speaking. [BBG]

Tech News Jason Chen

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 sandals and become the new Gadget Gods? These next gods will, like their predecessors, be people whose professional and private lives, and even personal appearance, are of equal importance to hordes of obsessed nerds.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

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 he knows deep down will never pan out. “You end up lying there saying, ‘I’m not stopping. It would be an act of shallow cowardice. Or you decide to quit and you say, ‘This…

Tech News Sean Fallon

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 the Connecticut coast-entirely off the grid with a complete (and badass) LED lighting overhaul. https://gizmodo.com/all-things-d-dean-kamen-on-his-mind-controlled-cyborg-394072 By letting his friends at Philips Color Kinetics take the reigns ol’ North Dumpling is now fitted with energy sipping LED…

Tech News John Mahoney

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 and it included some demos of the amazing Luke Arm prosthetic limb. Now All Things D has made the three-part entire interview available, and it includes detailed explanations from Kamen about why…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

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 arm”. (It’s named after Luke, yes, Skywalker.) Amazing. UPDATE: The full vid of Kamen’s interview, including arm demonstration footage, is embedded below. https://gizmodo.com/dean-kamen-cyborg-arm-part-ii-261933 Dean says that fatalities are down because of battlefield tech and…

Tech News Brian Lam

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New Batch of Epstein Photos Include Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Segway Inventor

Heinz’s Condiment-Mixing Machine Makes Your Unholy Dipping Sauce Creations a Reality

Kellogg’s Introduces Robotic Vending Machines That Mix and Match Cereals to Create the Perfect Breakfast Bowl

The Segway’s Inventor Wants to Mass-Produce Human Organs—Yes, You Read That Right

The Pentagon’s “Star Wars” Robotic Arm Just Got FDA Approval

FDA Approves First Prosthesis Controlled by Muscle Electrical Signals

Will.i.am Hosts Dean Kamen’s Robotics Championship

Watch Dean Kamen’s Prosthetic ‘Luke’ Arm Be Awesome at the Grocery Store

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

Caption Contest: “Why Aren’t You Following Me on Twitter?”

Where Were You When the Segway Changed Everything?

When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men

What Kind of Home Would Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Live In?

Segway Shirt Clarifies Just How You ‘Roll’

Four Segways Enter, Three Segways Leave (One Faceplants)

The Next Gadget Gods

Dean Kamen Struggles With the Idea of Giving Up on the Segway

Dean Kamen’s Private Island Is Now Entirely Off the Grid

Dean Kamen’s Full Bionic Luke Arm Video from All Things D

All Things D: Dean Kamen on His Mind-Controlled Cyborg “Luke” Arm

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