The jet pack just never seems to get old gets old. It also never seems to get cheaper, but for those of you with money to burn, $100,000 will get you THUNDERPACK. The company announced last week that "bench tests of the company’s THUNDERPACK have provided up to 75 seconds of flight time, a 300% increase over what other systems offer, and initial conceptual plans for the THUNDERJET system promise ten-fold increases over state of the art rocket belt capabilities."
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