For this year's Breakthrough Leadership award, Popular Mechanics honored Dean Kamen, an inventor with more than 440 patents who may be best known for creating the incredible but commercially disappointing Segway personal transporter.
But in this case, Beilinson said, Kamen was picked because of his years of work on personal medical devices aimed at improving people's lives. "Kamen created the first wearable infusion pump and first insulin pump to steadily deliver drugs to patients, greatly reducing the time they needed to spend in hospitals," Popular Mechanics said in an awards release. "He also invented a portable kidney dialysis machine that could be used at home. More recent advances include the iBOT self-balancing wheel chair, which can climb stairs, and the Slingshot water purifier, which incorporates a Stirling engine to treat water in remote parts of the globe."
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