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where’s my jetpack?

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Still waiting for your jetpack? We were promised jetpacks by the year 2001, weren’t we? Well, turns out they do actually exist... and the second -- yes, second -- Rocketbelt convention is happening this weekend in Niagara Falls, New York.

It doesn’t really seem like this is technology that could get you to work or anything, but still: at least someone is working on the cool tech sci-fi has been promising us for half a century.

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"Shouldn't Martin Landau be on the Moon now, or something?" —Foxtrot, January 1, 1999
They should keep a few of these on hand to hand out at subway stations when they have to shut the trains down due to rain.
IIRC, these things cost a small fortune to refuel... and they're only good for maybe a minute of flying time. Lack of practicality has always doomed this particular technology.

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