# The emotion behind invention

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2009
- Speaker: Dean Kamen
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_the_emotion_behind_invention)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The emotion behind invention](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dean_kamen_the_emotion_behind_invention/653b1a73e977), 20 min (TED's player)