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Nature is the original "inventor"–Nature’s designs are giving researchers ideas for new technologies that could help wounds heal, make injections less painful and provide new materials for a variety of purposes.

Velcro was inspired by the grappling hooks of burrs. Supersonic jets have structures that work like the nostrils of peregrine falcons in a speed dive. Full-body swimsuits, now banned from the Olympics, lend athletes a smooth, streamlined shape like fish.
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ABC News believes that it has discovered a picture of the new secret invention code-named Ginger, otherwise known as “IT,” in patent documents filed by DEKA Research, the company of inventor Dean Kamen, who’s record includes revolutionary wheelchairs, heart valves and many other valuable inventions.

It seems to be a kind of personal scooter, and a recent patent search would appear to support this. The patent states that the device is designed to move the individual over irregular surfaces and that it uses “a motorized drive mounted to the assembly and coupled to the ground-contacting module.”
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