The Jetlev Flyer is a tethered water-powered jetpack. Unlike other jetpacks available today, flight times can be measured in hours and flights can be almost 200 miles in length because the Jetlev’s fuel supply and powerplant is in a floating mini-boat down on the water. The jetpack is teether to the boat by a long […]
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< p style=”text-align: center;”> Bill Rigopoulos tells Inventors Digest the story of when he was vacationing in the Bahamas and was afraid to leave his cash, cell phone, credit cards and passport in his hotel room or hide them under his towel while he hit the beach. So he invented the Shark Pack – a
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Who knows your community better than you? If you know where all the great places to visit and eat are at in your town and city, why not start your own tours for tourists? That is exactly what Julia Segal is doing with her own business, Kingston By Fork. According to Frontenac EMC, she started
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The next time you take a trip to London, it may not be the attractions you can see that will draw your attention. Ajit Chambers wants to draw visitors underground into old subway stations and bomb shelters. Old London Underground plans to open the first site, Brompton Road station, in time for the 2012 Olympic
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I’m from California and we have earthquakes. It’s just part of living here for me, but I’m sure that people in the midwest are frightened by the idea. I know how they feel. Their tornados scare me. But, do tornados excite you? Have you ever wanted to chase a storm? Two of the world’s best
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Automating life-saving. That’s the plan for one Arizona entrepreneur, Tony Mulligan, who designed a remote-controlled buoy named Emily to help rescue swimmers in distress. Emily — an acronym for Emergency Lifesaving Lanyard — can race through rippling waters at 24 miles per hour and rescue swimmers twelve times as fast as human lifeguards, according to
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OnCell is a company that can help you create interactive self-guided cell phone tours. They serve museums, historic sites, parks, zoos, and other venues where people gather to be entertained and educated. OnCell provides the technology to create interactive audio tours for cell phones & smartphones. Let your visitors listen and learn at their own
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Television shows like How It’s Made are very popular, but watch it on TV if you go see the real thing somewhere? If a tired old fortune cookie factory in San Francisco can become a tourist destination, why can’t your factory? Wired: Every day, tourists pop into the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory to watch
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Bloomberg Businessweek reports that fear of financial collapse has enhanced gold’s glitter, with prices soaring more than 300 percent the past decade, including 30 percent just in the last 12 months. And just as strong U.S. real estate prices a few years ago created a burgeoning ecosystem of entrepreneurs exploiting that bubble, gold’s surge has
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Brian Wynn loves surfing so much that he learned the fine art of building his own boards. Now he runs Surfboards by Brian Wynn in Egg Harbor Township. Bill Stage’s office life was in and around New York, at CBS and MSNBC, among other TV networks. But he could never spend enough time on the
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