You say you want a revolution?
Tech insiders are all abuzz over mystery invention.
As near as I can tell, the news leak over "Ginger" started with
Harvard Business School Press. Word got out that the publisher had paid $250,000
for publishing rights to a book detailing, "Ginger," a device to be
unveiled next year by inventor and National Medal of Technology winner Dean
Kamen.
According to Reuters, technology leaders like Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's
Jeff Bezos, and venture capitalist John Doerr have invested millions of dollars
in the device after seeing a prototype. Investment bank Credit Suisse First
Boston believes the device can generate more in its first year than any start-up
in history, making Kamen richer than Bill Gates within five years.
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, the founder of 3com, took a look at the
device and said this: "Now, if I invented metal and came out with the first
spoon, which would be the big invention, the spoon or metal? This is the current
complication in solving the...mystery." Jobs told Kamen the invention would
be as significant as the PC: "If enough people see the machine you won't
have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen."
Doerr said he had been sure he wouldn't see anything in his lifetime as
important as the World Wide Web -- until he saw the Ginger prototype.
According to inventor Kamen, the device and its core technology will
"have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some
billion-dollar old-line companies."
Ginger isn't scheduled to be unveiled until 2002.
Here are links to some of the hundreds of articles about this new invention:
And some articles about inventor Dean Kamen:
