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Way More Useful than a Segway

Yahoo is such a crazy huge platform that I didn't blog about my Dean Kamen interview that made the site's front page on Friday. But a few friends didn't see it or hear anything about this amazing project, so I decided to embed it below. Below that is a much, much longer clip about Kamen's work with a non-profit called First. I'd wager both are more impactful than Kamen's last invention, the far more hyped Segway. (Although he addresses that too in the clip.) The interviews were a last minute get at D, and arguably the best stuff we did while we were there. It was too bad so many people left before the last day of the conference and missed Kamen's presentation on stage. (Fun fact: list to how insanely stopped up I am in my voice over! I was so sick in these clips!)

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