Albert isn't your average retiree with a bad back.

For 31 years, he designed turbine systems for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. His specialty? Compressing massive volumes of air through impossibly small spaces.

So when he found himself unable to use traditional yard tools, his engineering brain asked a different question than most people would:

"Why are we still using 1970s motor technology to blow leaves? I compress air at 40,000 feet. Why can't I do it in my driveway?"

Eight months and 47 prototypes later, Albert had his answer: a brushless turbine motor, borrowed from drone technology, that spins at 110,000 RPM — nearly 3x faster than a gas blower's motor — packed into a device that weighs just 2.1 pounds.

He called it the Seese Pro.