Where's my checkbook...

HA! Ive always said we'd have jetpacks in the future :)

I'm not sure if I trust a Mexican Designed Rocket-belt. They only just got a space program and I mean honestly, haven't you seen South Park?

OMG! Where's my mastercard?!

20 secs fly....

doesnt gona move you too far away...

Is this the same one that was featured on that one episode of Arrested Development?

Totally and utterly awesome. Now I'm off to get a job...

Given that jet exhaust is typically very hot, how does one keep from burning their a$$ and legs with these things?? Oh, and I can hear the neighbors griping about the noise now.

Jetpacks have to be the least efficient way to travel yet invented. It makes the Space Shuttle look like a bike.

is just enough fuel to get to the convience store and pack, make one hell of an entrance, would have loved it in my old flat where you had to walk 5 minutes around this huge wall, use the rocket pack just "jump" over it....though I was always a bit concerned what happened if you ran out of fuel say like 10-20 metres above ground

i agree with (e10 I'm not sure if I trust a Mexican Designed Rocket-belt. They only just got a space program and I mean honestly, haven't you seen South Park? )

i agree with (e10 I'm not sure if I trust a Mexican Designed Rocket-belt. They only just got a space program and I mean honestly, haven't you seen South Park? )
looks explosive ... yet fun

Hmm, 15 seconds from parking lot to upper mezzanine with a little time left over to land near the beer guy!

Look for these at stadiums.

(The counter-measures will be AWESOME)

About DAMN TIME I got my JETPACK!

Does that mean the future finally arrived?

@everyone nitpicking the Rocket Belt-

Who cares about its flaws? It's a fantasy none of us can afford anyways...plus, it's a freaking jet pack!

10 seconds flight!?? thats pretty weak, wont be good till they can make it for 10 minutes or so, then it would be worth the pricetag, then we can all ditch our gas guzzling cars, to a much more guzzling jetpack!

Up Up.. and AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

but could have some good uses for emergency services.. *help help I fell down a well* *here let me just jetpack down to you and lift you out*

Or maybe they could use it at the opening cerimony of the next olympics, that would be a cool way to light the torch, jetpacks upto the podium and drops the olympic flame into the dish full of petrol.

I wonder if they are going to be issued to the staff of Geek squad.. just so they can try and live up to those cool jetpack ad's geeksquad have on comedy central, y'know the one where the guy gets stuck in a traffic jam, gets outta his car, pulls out the jetpack and flys to the customers house. It would be amusing watching the mid air confusion / mid air crashes, kinda like watching a car accident or a fire, but a bit more spectacular.. as im sure we are all guilty of to some degree, C'omon we all know the real reason everyone watches Nazcar.. its not who comes first, its all about the crashes.

This is just a backpack with compressed gas. You could strap just about any compressed gas to your person and get 20 seconds of flight time... Controlling it is a different issue.

Until there is a chemical reaction creating thrust, it's not a "rocket". Anyone willing to strap some real rocket fuel to their back?

This rocket belt's propulsion works with superheated water vapour. A gas cylinder contains nitrogen gas, and two cylinders containing highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide. The nitrogen presses the hydrogen peroxide onto a catalyst, which decomposes the hydrogen peroxide into a mixture of superheated steam and oxygen

Looks like a coffee urn on the back.

I will make a fortune renting this out to grooms at weddings. Got cold feet? Just hit the igniter button and you'll make it to the waiting escape limo.

Are you a blimp commander and afraid of that "abandon ship" call in case of emergency? We got you covered.

What really gets me is their claim about the right person could make a lot of money with these. For 250k plus fuel and all, just how many Nascar events can you line up that will pay huge money to make this back? Wouldn't it be nice to offer an optional extended fuel tank for more than 20 second flight time, or recommend losing 40lbs to increase your odds of landing safely? Hmm now...