ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Kamen - Inventor
Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers.

Why you should listen

Dean Kamen is an innovator, but not just of things. He hopes to revolutionize attitudes, quality of life, awareness. While an undergraduate, he developed the first portable infusion device, which delivers drug treatments that once required round-the-clock hospital care. And, through his DEKA Research and Development, which he cofounded in 1982, he developed a portable dialysis machine, a vascular stent, and the iBOT -- a motorized wheelchair that climbs stairs (Stephen Colbert took one for a spin).

Yes, he's a college dropout, but he's a huge believer in education, and in 1989 established the nonprofit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to inspire teenagers to pursue careers in science. FIRST sponsors lively annual competitions, where students form teams to create the best robot.

His focus now is on off-grid electricity and water purification for developing countries; another recent project, previewed at TED2007, is a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers (read an update here). He's also working on a power source for the wonderful Think car. And, with more funding in the works, we haven't seen the last of the Segway.

More profile about the speaker
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TED2007

Dean Kamen: Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers

Dean Kamen daje rani prikaz nove protetičke ruke

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Izumitelj Dean Kamen daje rani prikaz protetičke ruke koju razvija na zahtjev američkog Ministarstva obrane. Njegova tiha predanost uporabi tehnologije za rješavanje problema, uz istovremeno odavanje počasti ljudskom duhu, nikada nije bila jasnija.
- Inventor
Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers. Full bio

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I got a visitposjetiti almostskoro exactlytočno a yeargodina agoprije,
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U posjet mi je došao, prije skoro točno godinu dana,
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a little over a yeargodina agoprije, from a very seniorstariji personosoba at the DepartmentOdjel of DefenseObrana.
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malo više od godinu dana, visoki dužnosnik Ministarstva obrane.
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CameDošao to see me and said, "1,600 of the kidsdjeca that we'veimamo sentposlao out
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Došao me posjetiti i rekao, „1.600 mladih koje smo poslali
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have come back missingnedostaje at leastnajmanje one fullpuni armruka.
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vratili su se bez barem jedne cijele ruke.
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WholeCijeli armruka. ShoulderRame disarticulationdisarticulation.
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Cijele ruke. Odsječene u ramenu.
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And we're doing the sameisti thing we did for -- more or lessmanje,
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A mi činimo isto što smo činili, više ili manje,
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that we'veimamo doneučinio sinceod the CivilCivilnog WarRat, a stickštap and a hookkuka.
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još od građanskog rata, štap i kuku.
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And they deservezaslužiti more than that."
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A oni zaslužuju više od toga."
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And literallydoslovce, this guy satsat in my officeured in NewNovi HampshireHampshire and said,
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I taj mi je tip, doslovno, sjedeći u mojem uredu u New Hampshireu, rekao,
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"I want you to give me something that we can put on these kidsdjeca
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"Želim da mi date nešto što možemo staviti na tu djecu
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that'llto će pickodabrati up a raisingrožđica or a grapegrožđa off a tablestol,
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a što će moći podići grožđicu ili grejpfrut sa stola,
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they'lloni će be ableu stanju to put it in theirnjihov mouthusta withoutbez destroyinguništavanje eitherili one,
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i oni će ih moći staviti u usta bez da ih unište,
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and they'lloni će be ableu stanju to know the differencerazlika withoutbez looking at it."
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a također i da znaju razliku između njih bez gledanja."
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You know, had efferentsmanjeni, afferentaferentnih, and hapticHaptički responseodgovor.
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Znate, da imaju živčani prijenos u oba smjera i osjet dodira.
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He finisheszavrši explainingobjašnjavajući that, and I'm waitingčekanje for the bigvelika 300 poundfunta paperpapir proposalprijedlog,
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Završio je objasnivši to, ja sam čekao na veliku službenu ponudu od 150 kilograma,
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and he said, "That's what I want from you."
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a on je rekao, "To je ono što želim od vas."
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I said, "Look, you're nutsorašasto voće. That technology'stehnologija je just not availabledostupno right now.
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Rekao sam, „Gledajte, ludi ste. Ta tehnologija trenutno jednostavno nije dostupna.
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And it can't be doneučinio.
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To se ne može učiniti.
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Not in an envelopeomotnica of a humanljudski armruka,
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Ne u okviru ljudske ruke,
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with 21 degreesstupnjeva of freedomsloboda, from your shoulderrame to your fingertipsprstima."
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s 21 stupnjem slobode, od ramena do vrhova prstiju."
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He said, "About two dozentucet of these 1,600 kidsdjeca have come back bilateralbilateralni.
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Rekao je, „Oko dva tuceta od tih 1.600 djece vratili su se bez obje ruke.
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You think it's badloše to loseizgubiti one armruka?
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Mislite da je loše izgubiti jednu ruku?
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That's an inconvenienceneugodnosti comparedu odnosu to havingima bothoba of them goneotišao."
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To je tek neugoda u odnosu na to kad nemate nijednu."
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I got a day jobposao,
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Imam normalan posao,
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and my nightsnoću and weekendsvikendom are alreadyveć filledispunjen up with things like,
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i noći i vikendi su mi ispunjeni stvarima koje volim,
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let's supplyOpskrba watervoda to the worldsvijet, and powervlast to the worldsvijet, and educateobrazovati all the kidsdjeca,
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dostava vode svijetu, dostava energije svijetu, obrazovanje sve djece,
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whichkoji, ChrisChris, I will not talk about. I don't need anotherjoš missionmisija.
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o čemu, Chris, neću govoriti. Ne treba mi dodatni zadatak.
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I keep thinkingmišljenje about these kidsdjeca with no armsoružje.
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Ali i dalje mislim na tu djecu bez ruku.
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He sayskaže to me, "We'veMoramo doneučinio some work around the countryzemlja.
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On mi kaže, „Nešto smo i radili u zemlji.
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We'veMoramo got some prettyprilično amazingnevjerojatan neurologyneurologija and other people."
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Imamo prilično zapanjujuće neurologe i druge ljude."
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I said, "I'll take a fieldpolje tripputovanje, I'll go see what you got."
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Rekao sam, „Otići ću u terenski obilazak, pogledat ću što to imate."
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Over the nextSljedeći monthmjesec I visitedposjetila lots of placesmjesta, some out here, around the countryzemlja,
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U sljedećih mjesec dana posjetio sam mnoga mjesta, neka i ovdje, širom zemlje,
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foundpronađeno the bestnajbolje of the bestnajbolje.
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pronašao najbolje od najboljih.
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I wentotišao down to WashingtonWashington. I saw these guys, and said,
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Otišao sam u Washington, našao se s tim ljudima, i rekao,
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"I did what you askedpitao me. I lookedgledao at what's out there.
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„Učinio sam što ste tražili. Pogledao sam što je na raspolaganju.
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I still think you're nutsorašasto voće. But not as nutsorašasto voće as I thought."
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I dalje mislim da ste ludi. Ali ne baš toliko ludi koliko sam mislio."
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I put a teamtim togetherzajedno, a little over 13 monthsmjeseci agoprije,
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Okupio sam tim, prije malo više od 13 mjeseci,
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got up to 20 some-oddnešto people.
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ustao pred dvadesetak ljudi.
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We said, we're going to buildizgraditi a deviceuređaj that does what he wants.
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Rekli smo, napravit ćemo uređaj koji radi ono što on traži.
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We have 14 out of the 21 degreesstupnjeva of freedomsloboda;
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Postigli smo 14 od 21 stupnja slobode;
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you don't need the onesone in the last two fingersprsti.
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ne trebaju vam oni u zadnja dva prsta.
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We put this thing togetherzajedno.
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Sklopili smo uređaj.
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A couplepar of weeksTjedni agoprije we tookuzeo it down to WalterWalter ReedReed,
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Prije nekoliko tjedana odnijeli smo ga u Walter Reed,
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whichkoji is unfortunatelynažalost more in the newsvijesti these daysdana.
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koji je, nažalost, ovih dana više u vijestima.
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We showedpokazala it to a bunchmnogo of guys.
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Pokazali smo ga mnogima.
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One guy who describedopisan himselfsam as beingbiće luckysretan,
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Jednom tipu koji se opisao kao srećković,
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because he lostizgubljen his left armruka, and he's a rightydešnjak.
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jer je izgubio lijevu ruku, a dešnjak je.
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He satsat at a tablestol with sevensedam or eightosam of these other guys.
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Sjeo je za stol sa sedmoricom ili osmoricom drugih momaka.
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Said he was luckysretan, because he had his good armruka,
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Kaže da je sretan jer ima svoju dobru ruku,
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and then he pushedgurnula himselfsam back from the tablestol. He had no legsnoge.
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a zatim se odgurne od stola. Nije imao noge.
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These kidsdjeca have attitudesstavovi that you just can't believe.
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Ti mladići imaju stav u koji jednostavno ne možete povjerovati.
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So I'm going to showpokazati you now, withoutbez the skinkoža on it,
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Sada ću vam pokazati, bez omotača,
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a 30-second piecekomad, and then I'm doneučinio.
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video od 30 sekundi, i tada sam završio.
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But understandrazumjeti what you're looking at
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Ali shvatite: ono što gledate
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we madenapravljen smallmali enoughdovoljno to fitodgovara on a 50thth percentilepercentila femaležena,
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načinili smo dovoljno malenim da odgovara 50 posto žena,
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so that we could put it in any of these people.
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kako bismo ga mogli ugraditi bilo kojem od tih ljudi.
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It's going to go insideiznutra something that we use in CATMAČKA scansskenira and
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Ulazit će u nešto što koristimo u CAT skeniranju i
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MRIsMRIs of whateveršto god is theirnjihov good armruka,
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MRI od onoga što je njihova dobra ruka,
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to make siliconsilicij rubberguma, then coatkaput it, and paintboja it in 3D --
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kako bi se napravila silikonska guma, zatim obložila i obojila u 3D,
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exacttočno mirrorogledalo imageslika of theirnjihov other limbud.
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točan zrcalni prikaz njihovog drugog ekstremiteta.
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So, you won'tnavika see all the really coolsvjež stuffstvari that's in this seriesniz elasticelastična setset of 14 actuatorsregulacioni,
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Tako da nećete vidjeti sve zanimljive stvari koje su u ovom nizu elastičnog sklopa od 14 pokretača,
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eachsvaki one whichkoji has its ownvlastiti capabilitysposobnost to senseosjećaj temperaturetemperatura and pressurepritisak.
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od kojih svaki ima vlastitu sposobnost osjeta temperature i pritiska.
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It alsotakođer has a pneumaticpneumatski cuffpljuska that holdsdrži it on,
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Također ima i pneumatsku orukvicu koja pridržava,
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so the more they put themselvesse underpod loadopterećenje, the more it attachespridaje.
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i tim više prianja što se više optereti.
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They take the loadopterećenje off, and it becomespostaje, again, compliantpopustljiv.
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Kad se opterećenje ukloni, ona ponovno postaje fleksibilna.
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I'm going to showpokazati you a guy doing a couplepar of simplejednostavan things with this
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Pokazat ću vam momka koji obavlja nekoliko jednostavnih radnji s ovim
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that we demonstratedpokazao in WashingtonWashington. Can we look at this thing?
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kao što smo demonstrirali u Washingtonu. Možemo li to pogledati?
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Watch the fingersprsti grabzgrabiti. The thumbpalac comesdolazi up. WristRučni zglob.
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Pogledajte kako prsti zahvaćaju. Palac se podiže. Zapešće.
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This weighsteži 6.9 poundsfunti.
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Težina uređaja je 3,5 kilograma.
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Going to scratchogrepsti his nosenos.
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Sada će se počešati po nosu.
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It's got 14 activeaktivan degreesstupnjeva of freedomsloboda.
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Ima 14 aktivnih stupnjeva slobode.
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Now he's going to pickodabrati up a penpero with his opposedZa razliku thumbpalac and indexindeks fingerprst.
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Sada će podići olovku s palcem i kažiprstom.
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Now he's going to put that down, pickodabrati up a piecekomad of paperpapir,
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Sada će je spustiti, podići list papira,
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rotaterotirati all the degreesstupnjeva of freedomsloboda in his handruka and wristručni zglob, and readčitati it.
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rotirati sve stupnjeve slobode u ruci i zapešću, i pročitati s papira.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Davorin Jelačić
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Kamen - Inventor
Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers.

Why you should listen

Dean Kamen is an innovator, but not just of things. He hopes to revolutionize attitudes, quality of life, awareness. While an undergraduate, he developed the first portable infusion device, which delivers drug treatments that once required round-the-clock hospital care. And, through his DEKA Research and Development, which he cofounded in 1982, he developed a portable dialysis machine, a vascular stent, and the iBOT -- a motorized wheelchair that climbs stairs (Stephen Colbert took one for a spin).

Yes, he's a college dropout, but he's a huge believer in education, and in 1989 established the nonprofit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to inspire teenagers to pursue careers in science. FIRST sponsors lively annual competitions, where students form teams to create the best robot.

His focus now is on off-grid electricity and water purification for developing countries; another recent project, previewed at TED2007, is a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers (read an update here). He's also working on a power source for the wonderful Think car. And, with more funding in the works, we haven't seen the last of the Segway.

More profile about the speaker
Dean Kamen | Speaker | TED.com