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The tour guide points impatiently, "Do you see that big house there? ...Yes... there... next to the round house... yes, under the tall antenna...behind the tree... Do you not see it?" And to my embarrassment, I reply: "No!!! I do not see it." It wasn't the first time this happened to me.

For years, I've traveled worldwide, and local guides have tried to point out structures hundreds of meters away, but I couldn't understand what they were pointing at. To solve this frustrating challenge, I invented the "Smart Glasses." At the request of the City of David association, I developed an attraction intended for the Commissioner's Palace promenade.

This observation facility allows a whole group of tourists to look at the landscape through dozens of smart glasses.

All tourists see the point in the landscape the guide is pointing to, so there's no chance of missing out.

But the "patent" is the ability to jump hundreds and thousands of years forward and backward to see the landscape as it once appeared. It's possible to move buildings that block the view to reveal what's behind them and to get an x-ray view into the earth's belly to see, for example, the Siloam Tunnel diggers.

The technological facility was built, the software produced, but the system was never activated. Funding stopped after the money disappeared and was embezzled in the infamous Bernie Madoff scam. The smart glasses viewing the past-present and future... wait on my shelf. Waiting for a better future.