A New Jersey man has developed a downloadable application for the Apple iPhone specifically targeted at shooing away bears.The “Scare Bear Trail Companion' application costs 99 cents to download and provides digital sounds meant to frighten away bears on hiking trails. It gives users the option between the sound of an airhorn, bear bells, hands clapping or rocks shaking in a tin can, each activated by shaking the phone.
Inventor Alex Tiger of Green Pond, N.J. — an area with a rising black bear population and increasing bear-human conflicts — said he hoped the application would allow people to alert bears that they're coming without the use of more cumbersome tools like actual bear bells or horns....