BIF-2 Day 2
Saul Kaplan kicked things off with a re-cap of the previous day. I appreciated his focus on the interactions in the hallways and reception afterward. This is the part of conferences that has always appealed to me.
He introduced today’s host, Walt Mossberg. Always nice to see a native returning home. Walt reminisced about the things that made Rhode Island great, such as fried dough. He invited Congressman Jim Langevin up on stage who opened the event and introduced his friend Dean Kamen as “an inventor and entrepreneur with a social conscience”.
Langevin mentioned that Kamen is currently working on a device to create potable water that will be the size of a steamer trunk. He challenged Kamen to invent a wheelchair that was more than a wheelchair; a true mobility device that did more than just moved around on four wheels… and then proceeded to show us Kamen’s invention, Langevin’s own wheelchair called the iBot.