>>7617756Dean Kamen:
Never goes out in anything but denim jeans and a denim jacket.
Never got an actual engineering degree but has helped create the Segway and a number of medical devices.
At the beginning of his career when hospitals were throwing money at him for his portable dialysis machines (while still living at home with his parents), he sent his parents on a vacation with a chunk of his profit so that a company could lift up the house from its foundations and expand the basement/workshop.
Founded DEKA solely to research and develop whatever caught his attention.
Has a personal plane and 3 helicopters.
Named his mansion. This mansion has corridors that look like mineshafts, multiple spiral staircases, and at least one secret passage.
Has a monstrous steam engine built by Henry Ford as a centerpiece of the living room of said mansion. He plans to actually work on it and turn it into a Stirling engine.
Refuses to actually tell how much money he actually has, which is hard for anybody else to estimate since he uses his own money for his own projects and makes constant donations to numerous groups.
