Water-powered jet-pack rides offer 007-style thrills

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Travis Wolf flipped a switch on his water-powered jet pack and took off over Little Lake Harris, soaring more than 20 feet above the surface. Wolf zoomed across the lake near Howey-in-the-Hills, effortlessly spinning and ...
Full article at: Orlando Sentinel  More like this  1 day ago, 8:42pm CDT

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Ready Set Jet

Source: N4G

Ready for an adventure of epic proportions time to take up your jet pack and ready yourself for flight. Halfbrick’s title Jet Pack Joyride has been rocketing Ios users to new heights. Facebook users strapped on the Jet Pack ...
Full article at: N4G  More like this  2 days ago, 10:27am CDT

Thrills at Sanctuary Cove

Source: The Age

The Seabreacher X on show at Sanctuary Cove. Photo: RBlackburn@drive.com.au For once the super-sized boats were not the headline act at the annual Sanctuary Cove boat show. It was a gravity-defying jet pack called the JetLev R200 tha ...
Full article at: The Age  More like this  3 days ago, 6:31pm CDT

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Claycordian Offers Reward After Vehicle Break-In at the Sunvalley Mall

Source: Claycord

A Claycordian is offering up to $500 for information leading to the recovery of his items, which were stolen this week at the Sunvalley Mall. On Wednesday between 7pm-9pm, I left my car next to the JC Penny entrance at the Sunval ...
Full article at: Claycord  More like this  3 days ago, 9:06am CDT

gTar: World's first iPhone equipped guitar for music lovers

Source: CellphoneBeat

So the sight of a set of nimble fingers dexterously maneuvering the strings of a guitar really gets you going eh? Unfortunately you could never get around to fretting your own majestic motifs… Well, here’s something that’ll prove to be a kick start to ...
Full article at: CellphoneBeat  More like this  4 days ago, 8:19am CDT

Tokyo Jungle: Equip Your Elephant With Roller Skates For Speedy Movement

Source: Andria Sang: Japanese Gaming

Elephant are big and smart, but surviving the wild of Tokyo Jungle is going to take more than size and brains. Thankfully, those who chose to play as an elephant have a means of outrunning a jet pack equipped chicken. Before mankind disappeared, they ...
Full article at: Andria Sang: Japanese Gaming  More like this  4 days ago, 11:39pm CDT

TechShop: Paradise for Tinkerers

Source: BusinessWeek

On March 5, 2010, Patrick Buckley was overcome with the desire to build something. Apple (AAPL) had just announced the iPad, and he had an idea: a retro case for the tablet that had the look and feel of a hard-bound book. “In my mind, I ...
Full article at: BusinessWeek  More like this  4 days ago, 11:19am CDT

Small Human Ordinariness: An Interview With Tom Gauld

Source: The Comics Journal

Nobody does silence like Tom Gauld. It sits heavy on his lonely lunar landscapes, dismantled robots and dilapidated moonbases; it pulls his tiny mute figures even further away from us as they wave proudly at the top of their doomed enterprises. Pages ...
Full article at: The Comics Journal  More like this  5 days ago, 7:10am CDT

Gold Coast firm jets into future

Source: The Courier Mail

Greg Weige demonstrates a JetLev Jetpack, which makes its Australian debut at this weekend's Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show. Picture: Jono Searle Source: The Courier-Mail MOVE over George Jetson - here comes the JetLev. Like a sc ...
Full article at: The Courier Mail  More like this  5 days ago, 3:18am CDT