Water-propelled jetpack is no dream, can be yours for $99,500 this March (video)

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• Filed under: General
• Date: Jan 31,2011

It’s taken a long time since that 2005 patent was filed for, but Raymond Li is now finally ready to bring his water-propelled jetpack to the money-spending world.

Nailing down a March 2011 launch date and a price of $99,500 hasn’t been easy for the inventor, who says his efforts to procure capital and prototyping quotations were mostly met with incredulity — “almost everyone thought I was crazy.”

His JetLev personal transporter relies on an engine and fuel tank (which remain on the water’s surface) to pump H20 into a backpack that then shoots out streams of the drinkable stuff to keep your airborne.

Top speed is 22MPH, max height is nearly 33 feet, and the fun factor is somewhere off the scale, whether you’re talking metric or imperial. Levitate past the break for a video demonstration. Read the rest of this entry »

20 Amazing Water Resistant Gadgets

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• Filed under: Displays, General
• Date: Oct 7,2008

Bubble O Seven – The Amphibious Car

Inspired by the James Bond Film “The Spy Who Loved Me”, the SQuba is an amphibious car designed by Frank Rinderknecht. The SQuba will operate like a boat if driven into the water, and is propelled along the surface by two propellers on either side of its license plate.

To submerge the vehicle, the driver opens a door to let water flood the passenger compartment. Once underwater, the SQuba uses a third engine to suck in water through the car’s front grille and pushes it out through two side jet vents. Read the rest of this entry »