An Inventor as far back a the 1960's and businessman to date,  with numerous national and international patents in many technology related fields.  Created companies within those fields of expertise: Omni Computers, Icecap Industries, EPIC, and many DIM companies.  Credited with inventing new and advanced breakthroughs in the macrobiotics, electronic, Lighting and energy saving fields.  These products can and are used in Europe, Canada and the United States. Guy Lestician, a resident of Smithfield, has pioneered a patented technology that provides an approach to improving power quality and energy savings by improving overall electrical system efficiency. Called the Energy Bank Unit, EBU is entirely the brainchild of the inventor, who has been involved in many energy-based technological breakthroughs for more than five decades.

SITTING IN WITH THE INVENTOR    ---   INTERVIEW  ---

Guy Lestician, designer of EBU and CEO of DMI manufacturing, lives in Smithfield, with his wife and three children. With more than 90 patented inventions and technologies, the energy management expert speaks of his invention:
PRISCILLA MASILAMANI: Tell us about your peculiar nickname?
A: Actually, the name was given by Kenneth Glenn, my patent attorney, who upon seeing my designs and inventions and decades-long association with lighting systems and energy based technologies, nicknamed me an "Edison-Tesla Combine." He is one of the reasons my e-mail address begins with "Edison," too.
PM: Were you always an inventor?
A: I started working with electrical parts and accessories right when I was about 12 years old. My parents basement was my first laboratory. I bought surplus electronics by the pound and made my own metal toys. By then, I was also breeding and selling catfish and guppies from my aquarium to a wholesale seller in (New) Jersey. I never stopped working. One idea led to the other and finally, I have all these inventions before me. If someone has a problem, then I design a solution. That's all I do.
PM: From where do you get your inspirations for inventions?
A: My first inspiration in school was my teacher Richard Lang Sr., who later ended up working for me after his retirement. Most of my inventions stem from watching nature at work in an aquarium. I have an aquarium at home and in my lab or wherever I work ... not right now in Burnley. Sometimes, helping out with my kids' school projects triggers the inventor within me to look for a new product. My son, Nicholas, who is 8, is already ready to experiment on his own. My analogy is music, especially Cher's songs and raspberry iced tea is the concoction that fires me up. I literally buy hundreds of cases of iced tea every year. They help keep me going.
PM: How do you view EBU's potential in the competitive market?
A: Now that we are planning to go global, I am sure that this would be the best penny saver anyone invested in. My aim is to make life easier for everyone. I installed this in my mothers home and I saw a decrease in my electric bill by 18 percent. My house definitely needed one with 3 children and all the video games and game boy consoles.
PM: Did you face any obstacles in getting out the product?
A: It's the people — the people who did not believe that such a device could even exist. Everyone said, "if it's too good to be true, it can't be." Mine was a technology not found in the textbooks. This was something that discouraged me. But once they saw the results, they were all blown away. Another thing I had to be careful was the patent thieves and the con artists, who would do anything to get the product in their hands. But eventually, our team took care of all of that. Each new process teaches me more patience and opens me up to look at different ways to develop a product.
"EBU is the 21st century solution to all the issues confronting all electrical power systems," said Lestician, CEO of Designed Manufacturing Inc., located at the Burnley Workshop in Snydersville. "It's guaranteed also to help reduce the electric bill up to 50 percent," he said and customers will show their bills for proof.

PERSONAL

Involved with local church creating and donating solar powered lighting which has been sent to Togo (poverty stricken village in Africa) Currently working their also is a solar powered refrigerator for them as well as a way to purify contaminated water through my UV lighting system so the village can have pure water.

Overseed board activities for the Eastern Pocono's property association in his community.

Building a fluelless motor system and less fuel for cars, more millage.

BioMedical Lighting system to kill germs and may other products in his lab in the works. Investments needed to on futher.

Better LED lighting systems for many locations.

Dedicated family man who enjoys go-cart racing with his children. To view Snydersville Raceway for Friday, July 11, 2008 slideshow, visit www.poconorecord.com