Give yourself a (ski) lift
By Stephanie D. Smith

(MONEY Magazine) – The worst part of snowboarding--other than the falls--is hobbling down a ski-lift line with one leg tethered at a right angle to a five-foot board. "It hurt my knee so bad, I didn't want to snowboard," says boarder Rick White of Woodland, Wash. So he invented the Swivler, $99 at swivler.com, a device that sits between your boot binding and your board, allowing your locked boot to rotate on the board so you can take a normal front-facing stride as you get on and off a lift. The easy-to-install device--15 minutes, tops--comes in junior and adult sizes and three colors: black, silver and, like, totally fluorescent green. --S.D.S.