--- description: Find out why Ryse Recon is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: Ryse Recon: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf46caee1e7730e9f/698a41980116827eea983915/best-inventions-2023-ryse-recon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # A Personal Helicopter Ryse Recon by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  LANCE ADKINS PHOTO Cross a human-sized drone with a motorcycle sidecar and you get the Ryse Recon, a one-person ultralight aerial vehicle that takes off and lands vertically. Thanks to a self-flying mechanism powered by AI, when you’re ready to touch down you simply press the “Land Now” button. The flotation devices beneath each of the six propellers even let you land on water. Out in the spring, the Ryse Recon is intended to help ranchers and farmers quickly reach hard-to-access parts of their land. And you don’t need a pilot’s license to use one. “I could teach you to fly it in 15 minutes,” says Mick Kowitz, CEO of Ryse Aero Technologies. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326974/ryse-recon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326974/ryse-recon/"},"headline":"A Personal Helicopter","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:11:55.541Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326974/ryse-recon/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf46caee1e7730e9f/698a41980116827eea983915/best-inventions-2023-ryse-recon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf46caee1e7730e9f/698a41980116827eea983915/best-inventions-2023-ryse-recon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326974/ryse-recon/","name":"A Personal Helicopter"}}]}] ```