Martin Jetpacks 'Available by the End of 2011': Pricing, Video

Martin Jetpacks: The Future is Now, and It's Expensive

You were promised jetpacks... and a New Zealand company wants to deliver. Martin Jetpacks will be available for your solo flying needs by the end of the year, according to the company's literature.

Martin Jetpacks are priced at around $80,000, so they won't be cheap. Americans, take note: jetpacks are considered ultralight aircraft (because, well, they are), so you can't fly them into urban areas. This makes a certain amount of sense: if people fly jetpacks like they drive cars, then we'd see lots of jetpacks crashing into lots of buildings.

According to company founder Glenn Martin, Boeing, the British SAS, NASA, and the Australian government have been the companies biggest web visitors, while 2500 people have waitlisted. The future is now. Well, it's soon.

Martin describes how to operate the jetpack: "You strap it on, rev the nuts out of it and it lifts you up off the ground." What could go wrong?

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