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The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years
Daniel_Stuckey writes "This week, New Zealand-based company Martin Aircraft became certified to take what it calls 'the world's first practical jetpack' out for a series of manned test flights. If all goes well, the company plans to start selling a consumer version of the jetpack in 2015, starting at $150,000 to $200,000 and eventually dropping to $100,000. 'For us it's a very important step because it moves it out of what I call a dream into something which I believe we're now in a position to commercialize and take forward very quickly,' CEO Peter Coker told the AFP."
It's a ducted fanpack not a jetpack.
Not to be mistaken for a ducted fannypack.
Sure! Please forward your name, social security number, and bank information and I'll have the funds transferred to, er, from Nigeria immediately.
Can't wait to take my jetpack to the Hyperloop station so I can commute to my job in Atlantis.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
30 minutes max... 400 pounds....
A Pentium 4 laptop on battery?
99% is all but one in a hundred, or 1e2.. add a power of ten for each 9, and you get.. 1e17, or all but 1 in 100 million billion. People? That's more people than ever existed. I think this thing is at least practical for the promoters, or at least whomever has been recieving the money they spend on devlopment and promotion. You'd still be off if you counted each person's individual cells.
No, you've added quite enough already.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. (Isaac Asimov)
You can probably get one cheaper at the Estate Sale