Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention

Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

On the Colbert Report, Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, showed off a new advanced prosthetic arm he’s developed to help people with missing limbs — specifically injured U.S. troops.