New must have summer toy ?
 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovat...x.html?hpt=C2#

Looks like hanging on to the end of a high pressure firehose:1orglaugh

that looks totally awesome!!

I bet the learning curve is interesting.

Wait until a piece of seaweed or garbage floating under the water clogs the intake on the motor and kills the jet of water.

And then you fall back into the water... sounds ok to me! :thumbsup

$136,000? that's a lot of hooker money

from 30 feet up, with all the shit on your back ? Sounds like a great deal of fun:1orglaugh

Only $125K per unit? Wait, no, $136K!

I am so feeling the "must have". :D

how did this make their news just now? that thing has been around for at least a year

Or an instant enema. :D

Not if you're Charlie :Graucho

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/20...owered-jetpack

Damn it was august of 2009

Looks awesome but I see lots of people getting hurt.....

wtf is that??? wow!!!!!

I was more thinking about being stuck out in the middle of the lake or ocean with all that shit on.

yeah, I saw it before as well:winkwink:

Maybe if you were 5' in the air.

Slow news day. This Egypt thing is taking too long.

$20 for 10 mins....
well placed site for 2 months of peak tourist traffic...
let's say for 10 mins on, there's 10 mins off, so in a 10 hour day, 5 hours total usage time == 30 rides
30x20$ == $600/day
x60 days = $36k

even if you pick your site well, it will never make a profit....

$20? You can barely rent a paddle boat for $20. I highly doubt anyone would rent that for $20.

I don't mean renting - I was figuring more of an "attraction" type thing, since you don't actually go anywhere with it.
Go on then $100/hr if you do actually go somewhere with it... still doesn't pay for itself easily once the novelty disappears after 2 seasons.

yup I agree, plus there will be all kinds of liability involved for the owner of the craft, you cant learn to operate that thing in 15 minutes:2 cents:

eg, I can rent a jetski for €50/hr, so why would I ever fork out the 10k or whatever they cost to buy + maintenance. 3 or 4 times per summer does me fine.

I'll take 2 and some real light sabers for air battles.

Nice one :)

wow that looks like a lot of fun!

Looks a bit complicated for that price tag, I'll wait for version number 2 :winkwink:

:1orglaugh

Wow,that looks like a lot of fun

look amazing but just to watch others :)

If this were 2003 or 2004 I'd say that would be a great way to showcase your name at Internext, Miami.

Sigh.. I miss the good ol' days...