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Dean Kamen’s Amazing Artificial Arm

He is the Segway guy, but there’s a lot more to him and his ability to solve problems through engineering.

I wasn’t around for DaVinci or Edison or Ben Franklin. I suspect they had a lot in common with Dean Kamen. He is the Segway guy, but there’s a lot more to him and his ability to solve problems through engineering.

I’m attaching a clip from the Colbert Report where he demonstrates a fully functional Deka prosthetic arm known as “Luke.” It is designed to be used by veterans who’ve lost limbs in combat. It is nothing short of amazing.

Even Steven Colbert stopped joking. It’s that important and that good.

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O’Reilly And Colbert

Last night was the big Stephen Colbert/Bill O’Reilly ‘confrontation.’ First they met on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor. Later, they moved to the Colbert Report on Comedy Central.

Both Bill and Stephen stayed in character. Colbert has an act. O’Reilly’s persona is an affectation which has evolved over time.

In spite of what I personally think about O’Reilly, he’s obviously a smart man. However, what was shown last night is, he’s out of the loop as far as contemporary culture is concerned.

More than likely, someone (or many someones) had tipped him off to Colbert’s nightly send up of the O’Reilly style. Did O’Reilly agree without really knowing what he was getting into? That’s how it seemed to me.

Colbert is a tough target for O’Reilly to attack, because what he says is ‘conservative-speak.’ It’s not the words that make his satire, but their context.

On more than a few occasions, Colbert made sport of O’Reilly without Bill having a clue! Again, it was the nuance of what transpired, not the meaning of the individual words.

Stephen needs to be careful, because over the long run, there can be an O’Reilly Factor without Colbert, but there can’t be a Colbert Report without Bill O’Reilly. Ask Vaughn Meader.

Blogger’s note: Over at TVNewser there is a ‘who won’ poll being conducted. At the moment, it’s Colbert 92%, O’Reilly 7%