http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot Comments for "Grameen and Segway team up to produce micro-entrepreneurial "Slingshot"" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot#comment-27201 I love reading about all these technologies we can't get while gas is up to 4 dollars a gallon. It would be nice if the Gov would pump some money into inventions that are already here.<br class="clear" /> Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:03:11 -0400 Anonymous comment 27201 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot#comment-597 <p>1000 liters of clean water per day ? How much dunk is needed to evaporize this volume of water, probably &quot; ab obtainum&quot;  after first 3 weeks of operation. </p><p>using UV light is probably more efficient, but not with the sewage</p><br class="clear" /> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:12:22 -0400 zameryki comment 597 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot#comment-506 I am wondering if these technologies are being tried out in India. I will be very glad to be part of any initiative in India.<br class="clear" /> Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:29:20 -0500 Jayasimha Makineni comment 506 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> February 23, 2006 - 10:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> cnn.com</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Segway creator unveils his next act</div><br> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> <i>I thought this news article was worth highlighting - an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur using his talents to design products specifically to meet the needs of people living at the base of the pyramid. The article originally appeared <a target="_blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/business2_futureboy0216/index.htm">here</a>.</i> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.dekaresearch.com/aboutDean.html" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.nextbillion.net/image/view/2312" /></a> San Francisco - 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-and an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />&quot;Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water,&quot; says Kamen. &quot;The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day, and we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.&quot;<br /><br /><br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot#comment Consumer Products Energy Health Successful Models Water South Asia Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:22:52 -0500 _Alex Bloom 2309 at http://www.nextbillion.net