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Charlie Pitarys <[log in to unmask]>
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His place is right next to mine. They have a really neat motorized
wheelchair with pentium processors  that can raise the person up to our eye
level, run around on two wheels in this mode and go up and down
stairs,(true,blows your mind just to see this device move )traverse rough
terrain, etc. This will greatly improve the quality of life for all persons
that are wheel chair bound. Johnson & Johnson has coughed up the dough for
this. It is in final stages of qual right now ready for release I think mid
year. I think they are over $20K each.

If I see IT tooling around town I'll let you know. Right now they only take
it out at night like the stealth bombers.

Oh Phil, at least NH voted for the right guy in the primary election. If the
rest of the country would have just listened to us instead of the media the
FL fiasco would not have happened!
See you all at APEX.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:06 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Did anybody see the news about "IT"?


In a message dated 1/11/01 6:44:43 PM Central Standard Time,
[log in to unmask]
writes:

<< Hey Steve, I would have expected you to wait until tomorrow, when it is
 FRIDAY.

 By the way, I expect IT to be a motorized version of the scooter, with air
 filled tires to reduce its bumpiness and to allow IT to go where any good
 Hummer can go. IT will sell like hotcakes.

 See you,
 Ahne. >>

Hi Ahne!

Yeah, but this intrigued me so much that I posted about it...it could mean
more business for us electronic types...who knows?

I've been doing some searching trying to learn what this could possibly be,
and like you, I was thinking that it may be some sort of transportation
device.

But then I found this link:

http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html

which gets into Dean Kamen (the founder and owner of DEKA Research) and
talks
about something called a Stirling engine which can purify water and create
electricity at the same time.

The page also hints of; "Another project, to be unveiled in the next year,
will necessitate building "the largest company in New Hampshire," Kamen says
with characteristic bravura. He's shy about details, except to say it
involves a consumer device unrelated to health care and will require $100
million in financing. Among the investors: Kleiner Perkins.

Still, VERY interesting!!!

-Steve Gregory-

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