What the hell is "Ginger"?

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 5:33 pm

I wonder if it's a new type of reusable toliet paper?

With a better name than Angel Soft or Charmin.

While I'm at it, just what is......

Bum Equipment that's on all those sweat shirts?

Now that would be a great name for tp.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 5:38 pm

Howdy, messiah

Goodmorning America a couple of days ago, spent most of the night at the patent office and that's what they came up with.

Not sure Matt ever had an original idea.

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messiah · Post by **messiah** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 5:42 pm

HOWDY!

Yeah, I missed the article

I thought it was something he came up with. Here's the article

Friday January 12, 1:35 pm Eastern Time
Mystery invention "Ginger" may be motorized scooter
NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The mystery invention code-named ``Ginger'' that has set the U.S. technology world abuzz may be little more than a motorized mini-scooter, judging from a recent patent application that came to light on Friday.

A Dec. 14, 2000, filing with the World Intellectual Property Organization available on the Internet at http://www.wipo.org describes a ``class of transportation vehicles for carrying an individual over ground...that is unstable with respect to tipping when...not powered.''

This ``personal mobility vehicle'' pictures what appears to be a young girl balanced on a two-wheeled scooter. The patent application by millionaire inventor Dean Kamen and six co-inventors fits descriptions made in broadcast reports by people claiming to have seen prototypes of the vehicle.

Harvard Business School Press is said to have paid $250,000 for a book detailing ``IT'' that is set to be unveiled in 2002 by Kamen, creator of devices such as a portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that climbs stairs.

The invention is said to take just 10 minutes to assemble using simple tools, according to details from the book proposal published by media industry watchers Inside.com. Ginger could cost less than $2,000 a piece. Top computer industry leaders and investment bankers were named as backers, Inside.com said.

In a statement issued on Thursday, Kamen, 49, declined to reveal much on the device other than saying: ``While our projects are in the development phase and have client confidentiality requirements, it is impossible for us to comment further.''

Kamen and his company, Manchester, New Hampshire-based DEKA Research, did not return calls on Friday seeking comment on the patent application.

balakov10 · Post by **balakov10** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 5:51 pm

very interesting

A revolutionary new wheelchair
http://www.msnbc.com/news/285231.asp?cp1=1#BODY

balakov10 · Post by **balakov10** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 5:59 pm

well I guess.....

THE 'IT' FILES: Digital Heavyweights Weigh In on Mystery Invention
http://inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=20707&pod_id=8&uiFiller=N
in that article it talks about his IBot...
John Rennie, editor in chief, Scientific American
Based on the description of this as something that would be affecting the architecture of cities and replacing dangerous machines, plus the fact that Dean Kamen has been involved so recently with his iBOT motorized wheelchair, that all tends to be very suggestive of this being some kind of transportation-related gadget, or some new form of personal transportation. I have to say that I would still be highly suspicious of the wild claims that are being made for this.

For example, talking about redesigning cities for it and all the rest. Hypothetically, let's suppose this were some sort of personal jet pack -- a personal flying belt of some kind. If that were so, that would certainly be a revolutionary sort of transportation device, and I imagine it certainly would change how things were set up. But I just wonder, in practice, how many people would necessarily want to have such a thing. For example, is this really going to be replacing most pedestrian uses? Replacing cars? Ideas about jet packs have been around for a really long time, as have other kinds of unusual transportation devices, and the record is littered with wonderful, starry-eyed predictions for these things that have often run really flat for very practical reasons.

Also, these kinds of wild claims and the huge level of secrecy and the clandestine meetings are usually associated with perpetual motion machines and other kinds of wild bunkum. It's frankly the caliber of the people who are involved in this case that gives us the reason to think that it's not just that again.

BIGJIMSLATE · Post by **BIGJIMSLATE** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 6:09 pm

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010112/tc/ginger_dc_6.html

http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2001/01/12/it_scooter/index.html

Whoopie! Now I care less!

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striderf1 · Post by **striderf1** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 8:27 pm

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by John:
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I don't trust 96% of society to fly around in helipacs or flying cars. Would YOU? I can just see it now...</font>

forget 96% of the population flying, i don't trust 99% of the population driving!!! I would rather have them fly, because I could swirve up down left of right instead of no were if your in a car stuck in traffic. plus the odds of it being something that dramatic is not likely

Loch-nar · Post by **Loch-nar** » Fri Jan 12, 2001 8:29 pm

just saw this article http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010112/n12623755.html

looks kinda lame to me......

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