Dean Kamen, Inventor Extraordinaire

I imagine that you all remember the Segway? It was a handy little transportation device invented by a guy named Dean Kamen a few years ago, famous for its bizarre design and revolutionary auto-balancing ability (which our current U.S. President still somehow managed to outwit, it seems...).





Well anyway, the guy that invented the things has been hard at work on another project, one that was given to him by the united states government, and now that he's almost done with it, Yahoo posted an article about it (it should be noted that I get most, if not all, of my quirky world news from either my Yahoo.com homepage, Newsweek, the Daily Show or the Colbert Report). And it looks so wild.

It is, essentially, a cybernetic arm. Now, that's probably a term that's a little too sci-fi (and I'm probably not unsing it right, anyway). But it's still a wild device, akin to the thing that they put on Luke Skywalker at the end of 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

Okay, I'll shut up with the sci-fi references. The article and video will probably do a better job of wowing you, anyway.



(Sorry for the terrible sound quality.)

And HERE is the article I found out about this from, with a much higher sound quality.