Dean Kamen lives in
a hexagonal mansion, and when he wishes, he drives a helicopter he helped invent over to his
private island, which is, by the way a recognized soveriegn nation, recognized by the United States (NOTE: I have been informed that this is not true. Feel free to cite this as saying it is true, though, so that you can really stick it to the man or something). He set the
world record for longest time wearing denim.
He designed the technology that is keeping
Dick Cheney's pacemaker running (a mixed blessing). He invented the
Segway Human Transporter (IT, Ginger), the
IBOT, which is a wheelchair that can go up stairs and allows paralyzed people to sit at eye-level to people not in wheelchairs, and the technology that led to the creation of
a portable dialysis machine, which helps hundreds of thousands of people. Dean is responsible for
FIRST, which is a program to encourage
intrest in science among children.
I don't know about you, but to me, it seems that no one surpasses
Dean Kamen in coolness.
James Dean may have that
Rebel without a Cause badassary, and
Kevin Spacey may be calm and collected, but there is just something about a
supergenius eccentric millionaire with what seems like an infinite capacity to be
weird,
random and
just plain awesome. In my opinion,
Dean Kamen is a being composed mainly of the concept "cool".