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Security One Card
Inventor: Scott
Invented at age: 9
He saw a problem:
Scott was searching for the key card to get into his family's
hotel room. In order to find it he had to sort through
all of the credit cards in his father's wallet to find
the right card for the hotel. There was a different plastic
card for everything from airline mileage clubs to YMCA
memberships to hotel room keys to movie rental stores.
Even in school he had an I.D. card, a bookstore card and
a door entry card.
 He
had an idea: Wouldn't it be nice if you could just add
a new magnetic strip to one card, when you needed instead
of having a new card for everything?
He developed it:
He designed a magnetic card system whereby a retail store
or hotel could add an additional magnetic strip to an
already existing plastic card of the user's choice. The
additional strip would contain the information for that
store/hotel only.
The idea was a hit: He won the 2004 LeTourneau University
Invention & Design Contest. He was named 2004 "Innovator
of the Year" by the Maryland Daily Record
He won the 2003 Student Ideas for a Better America Competition.
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