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NH is near Boston (lots of medical research going on there). With more more lax business taxes.

Regarding so much innovation from one man, his company DEKA has a few hundred engineers.

That is impressive. I feel like i need an overlay of the US to see where and how much he deviates. But what projection [0] to compare to.

[0] http://xkcd.com/977/

Dean Kamen: DEKA and FIRST Robotics [0]

Ignoring the non medical DEKA products (Segway) I think DEKA and FIRST (particularly FIRST) should have much more PR. Maybe you could argue ambition, but I still feel like mentioning these two organizations.

0: http://www.usfirst.org/

I know you are talking about hobby/consumer level printing here but it is entirely possible to print things other than little plastic junk. Metal SLS printing is very capable today.[1] Printing materials such as tungsten would make a very capable (however impractically expensive) bullet.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApmGFDA6ow&noredirect=1

Note: http://i.imgur.com/DVWCxty.png Tree style tab. and Nav on title bar. Lots of vertical pixels available.