Coaches' Lips are Sealed With Island Inventor's 'BoomGuard'

BABYLON, N.Y., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A Long Island special education teacher has revolutionized big-league play-calling with BoomGuard, a brilliantly simple device that shields coaches' mouths from potential lip-readers.

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Inventor Ramone Ward remembers the autumn Sunday in 2005 when it came to him: for all those NFL coaches holding laminated play cards over their mouths and running from cameras to protect their secrets, there had to be a better way. "Someone was going to make a lot of money," he says. "And I decided that was going to be me."

Less than five years later, Ward's award-winning BoomGuard device is building a steady following in multiple professional and high school sports, including auto racing and football. The world's first Microphone Shield Device was used by coaching personnel at Bay Shore, Hauppauge and West Babylon high schools last season, while BoomGuard graced the headsets of the Matco Tools NHRA Top Fuel Dragster Crew this summer at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ.

"I found BoomGuard to be innovative and rewarding," said West Babylon Head Coach Al Ritacco. "I would definitely recommend the BoomGuard to other coaches, and I can see it on the college level."

BoomGuard is constructed from a durable and flexible plastic called elastomer. It comes in a variety of colors and affixes to virtually any communications headset with a Universal Belt Attachment. The device won the Telecommunications Category silver medal at the 2008 INPEX Invention Convention, the country's largest annual invention exposition, and has even provided a benefit its inventor didn't initially intend: advertising.

Ward's brainchild also took the Advertising Category bronze at INPEX. The Matco Dragster crew took full advantage of that application by wearing the Matco logo on their BoomGuard shields. "It really is a great way to advertise any logo or message," Ward says.

For all the Rex Ryans out there, the BoomGuard even acts as a profanity filter – allowing saucy syllables to fly without offending the viewing audience. "Sometimes, you really don't want to read their lips," Ward notes.

These additional applications mean big things for the patent-pending device, according to Ward. "This is a nonconventional invention and not something that's going to be in Target," he says. "It's truly a niche market, but it's a big one. It just needs to get in front of the right people.

"There really is a need for this," Ward adds. "Teams really hire guys to read lips and steal plays. Coaches want to focus on play-calling and winning the game, not on running and hiding."

For more information on BoomGuard or to learn about partnership, sponsorship and sports-marketing opportunities, please visit www.BoomGuard.com or contact Ramone Ward at 631-612-2424 or [email protected]. You can also check out BoomGuard in action on YouTube.

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