Tuesday, September 2, 2008 |
14:30 - Fan Fiction
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Hey, remember the SoloTrek, that personal helicopter/ducted fan thing that flew noisily around all the geek blogs back around 2002? Sure looked like it had potential; apparently it ate itself a few years ago. Looks like the self-inflicted damage was only due to the testbed safety measures themselves backfiring, but one can only imagine what else could have gone wrong in the real world. Those could have been power lines just as easily.
Well, some Germans appear to be making their own go at it. Definitely looks a lot more substantial, but damn—only 20 minutes?
Nevertheless, I love that people are so passionate about projects like this that they're willing to sink in so much of their own funding with little to no hope that it'll ever see market viability...
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