microrobert
08-20-2013, 04:18 AM
Out Of The Comics, Into Reality: Jet Pack Moves Closer To Market
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From Buck Rogers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_rogers) to James Bond (http://youtu.be/4K8zz9eI4-8), we all have a pretty concrete mental image of a jet pack — a motorized backpack with little handles in front and smoke shooting out of the back.
The New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Co. doesn't just think it's turned the jet pack of your imagination into a reality. It thinks it's made something better.
"The ones that you've seen previously in history seem to have a very limited time of endurance," CEO Peter Coker tells NPR's Don Gonyea. "We wanted something that you could actually use on the day-to-day basis."
The company plans to put the jet pack (http://martinjetpack.com/) on the industrial market next year.
Out Of The Comics, Into Reality: Jet Pack Moves Closer To Market : All Tech Considered : NPR (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/17/212614052/out-of-the-comics-into-reality-jet-pack-heads-to-market)
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/08/16/front-view-with-pilot_wide-08aca2af47c0c9bbbcc6ce39f06e38276335b26f-s40-c85.jpg
From Buck Rogers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_rogers) to James Bond (http://youtu.be/4K8zz9eI4-8), we all have a pretty concrete mental image of a jet pack — a motorized backpack with little handles in front and smoke shooting out of the back.
The New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Co. doesn't just think it's turned the jet pack of your imagination into a reality. It thinks it's made something better.
"The ones that you've seen previously in history seem to have a very limited time of endurance," CEO Peter Coker tells NPR's Don Gonyea. "We wanted something that you could actually use on the day-to-day basis."
The company plans to put the jet pack (http://martinjetpack.com/) on the industrial market next year.
Out Of The Comics, Into Reality: Jet Pack Moves Closer To Market : All Tech Considered : NPR (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/17/212614052/out-of-the-comics-into-reality-jet-pack-heads-to-market)