"In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers ? or ITs ? in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes."
2 devices
"There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro ? and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000."
2 different devices.
Bezos is quoted as saying that IT ?...is a product so revolutionary, you?ll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it??
possible conflicts with national security/laws. like mp3 only worse?
Jobs is quoted as saying: ?...If enough people see the machine you won?t have to convince them to architect cities around it. It?ll just happen.?
like any standard, the one that gets the most popularity wins. could it be cars vs whatever he makes?
Kemper says the invention will ?sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking.?
change ways of thinking. again, possibly going really deep into science, or really shallow. often it is most difficult utilizing basic science principles, and easiest utilizing obscure principles..
The ?core technology and its implementations? will, according to Kamen, ?have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some billion-dollar old-line companies.? And the invention will ?profoundly affect our environment and the way people live worldwide. It will be an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.?
Quantum physics has yet to really rear it's twisted head in technology, it would not surprise me that they are working on multiple devices based on quantum physics.
of course, there's that environmental impact one, in combination with being an alternative to dirty, expensive, dangerous, and frustrating devices quote, which most obviously points towards cars (what else is common to MANY people, yet dirty, expensive (esp with gas prices the way they are now), and frustrating, and dangerous at the same time?), and traffic jams in Cities.
IT will be a mass-market consumer product ?likely to run afoul of existing regulations and or inspire new ones,? according to Kemper.
likely to run afoul of existing regulations. sounds interesting no? just like the internet has been a big problem (esp in the states) when it comes to new laws etc, this one will probably carry similar changes to laws with it.
the question remains, is this something so simple that I am overlooking what it is, or is it what is most obvious to many of us, an alternative to vehicles?
and the REAL question remains, who the hell is so twisted to do such a thing, and make people spend their time trying to figure out this riddle.
perhaps this is only a passive poll. your company posts this piece of well made pr, and watches people interpret it. people see in this pr what they want to see, just like those ink blot things for psychology. only this way, you get honest answers, becuase that's what people really think!