Flashflight.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Cool Colorado Stuff

While software consultant and avid disc tosser Jeff Scott was "between jobs" in summer 2002, he threw an electric-lit disc and it broke in two. Sensing a wide-open niche in the market, he discussed a better quality product with architect/engineer Jerry Moore over a beer. "Two beers later, we said, 'This has some real potential,'" Scott recalled. The pair incorporated as Playhard and designed the battery-powered Flashflight, a heavy-duty flying disc illuminated by an LED-fed fiber-optic array. In early 2003, the duo inked an exclusive manufacturing and distribution deal with another...