BMW, clearly recognizing the days of ground-based transportation are numbered and soon everyone is going to be zipping around wearing jetpacks, crashing into power lines and the sides of buildings, has released this video of its electric-powered wingsuit. The suit, which features twin impellers spinning at 25,000RPM mounted to a

Because some people refuse to let go of the 1950’s vision of the future, this is a video of Slovakia-based Klein Vision’s AirCar prototype taking to the skies on its maiden voyage. The vehicle, which transforms from car to plane in slow-motion Transformer style, features a 1.6-liter BMW engine cranking

This is Vino, a corkscrew/bottle opener combo designed by Adi Kafri for OTOTO Studio (available here on Amazon for $23) that looks like a little bat. The bat’s wings move up and down as a bottle is opened and the cork is pulled out. Speaking of — I think I’ll

This is a video of the UK’s Royal Navy receiving a demonstration from Gravity Industries showing how their jetpacks could be used to board ocean vessels, in this case the HMS Dasher. Admittedly, not a bad use for a jetpack. Maybe not as good of a use as flying into

This is a video of a trained vulture landing on the selfie stick of paragliding instructor Scott Mason while parahawking (a discipline he developed back in 2001), a real activity that exists combining paragliding and falconry, in which a trained bird of prey leads a paraglider to thermal updraft columns

This is the ‘Jetpack Pick Me Up Inflatable Costume’ created by Morph-Costumes and available on Amazon for $60. You know as a kid I figured by Halloween 2020 we’d be trick-or-treating with ACTUAL jetpacks on, blasting off from door to door to visit as many houses as possible while avoiding

This is a video of aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth building and demonstrating the toy hover pod he built that actually flies with the help of parts salvaged from a tiny quadrocopter toy. Pretty cool. Granted in this video The Child flies the thing like they’ve been serving unders at the

This is a video of some of the skydivers from Skydive Spaceland Houston speeding towards earth at night while covered in LED strips and blasting 300-foot sparkler trails from their feet. That’s cool. Maybe not as cool as I am, but– “I swear if this is the detachable thumb trick