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Article: Riding high: entrepreneur's motorcycle helmets fuel company's success.(MAKING IT)(Kerry Harris)(IHT Technology Inc.)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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WHILE STATIONED IN JAPAN AS A U.S. NAVY PILOT IN 2002, Kerry Harris took to riding a motorcycle to better navigate the heavy traffic. But there was one problem: "It gets hot," says Harris, a native of Canton, Ohio. "And when you start to perspire inside the helmet, the visor fogs up." A tinkerer by nature, Harris attacked the problem, outfitting his helmet with computer fans and batteries.
The result: rather than flip up the visor to get air flowing, a mere push of a button would do the trick. Harris eventually went from recreation to inspiration, and launched IHT Technology Inc. in San Antonio. The company generated revenues of $1 ...