Segway Inventor Turns To Environment

Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don’t have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world‚Äîand an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs. To solve the problem, he’s invented two devices, each about the size of a washing machine that can provide much-needed power and clean water in rural villages