Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Kingdom of North Dumpling



North Dumpling is America’s real life “mad scientist’s island.”


Well, to be fair, Dean Kamen isn’t really mad. He is an eccentric inventor, to be sure. Still, it’s possibly the closest thing in the U.S. to the fictitious island with the reclusive scientist creating wild inventions.

Dean Kamen is best known as the inventor of the Segway, and he has a home called Westwind in Bedford, New Hampshire. That home is unique, with hallways that look like mine shafts, 1960s novelty furniture, antique wheel chairs, among other oddities.

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