Tag: JETPACK

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite having appeared in only one movie since 2007 (and a TV one at that), Lindsay Lohan apparently believes that her first name carries similar star power to those of Oprah, Cher, and Madonna. LiLo is suing E-Trade for the ridiculous sum of $100 million because of a commercial that featured a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay. ...

Share At possible risk to the user's health, many a geek's dream is finally coming true. According to the Daily Mail, the world's first commercial jet pack will hit the market this year. Costing a cool $75,000, the jet pack is much more than the usual DIY projects we've told you about. That's right; it's not just a rocket strapped to your back! The unnamed machine will be manufactured by ...

Well, Yves Rossy, the idiot (or genius, depending on how you look at it) who planned to strap himself to a rocket-powered carbon-fiber wing and fly across the English Channel, successfully made his record-breaking flight across the notoriously chilly body of water yesterday without plummeting to his death. The Swiss daredevil completed his 22-mile, 12-minute, jet-pack-powered flight without ...

Swiss lunatic flying enthusiast, Yves Rossy, is planning an attempt to become the first person to cross the English Channel with a jet pack strapped to his body. Here's how it will go down: Rossy plans to drop himself from an airplane over 8,000 feet above Calais, France, fire up the kerosene firing engines on his home-made (seriously?) jet pack, and fly across the famous body of water at up to ...

Technically they're not jet packs -- they're rocket belts -- but who cares! Yes, Switched reading public, you can now purchase your very own rocket belt! Two companies, Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana (TAM) and Jet Pack International (or Jet P.I. for short, which sounds like a 70's cop show), are selling rocket belts to the consumer. For just $250,000 TAM will sell you a sleekly styled, ...