Wednesday 23 February 2011

The future is closer than you think, flying cars are ready to buy now.



The Parajet Skycar is the world's first street legal flying car. It may look more like a dune buggy, and it flies more like a paraglider than the cars in Futurama, but you can buy one now for £55k. The car was taken from London to Timbuktu - 3700 miles - by the creator and a former British army officer showing it can cope with the extremes of the Sahara, (and driving in London!).

See more on the Parajet website. If only that was a referral link and my readers could be persuaded to buy one..

Perhaps this is more like the image that 'flying car' brings to mind:






UPDATE: After writing this, I browsed to XKCD and had a 'Randall, get out of my head' moment:

Flying Cars

26 comments:

  1. that would be brilliant

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  2. Man flying cars will be the future one day, probably not in our lifetime though!

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  3. Just what I need, MORE energy consumption!

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  4. and then there would be flying traffic lights too?

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  5. when everyone has a flying car there is going to be no limits!

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  6. That looks really cool, also really expensive though.

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  7. This is THE coolest thing. The price-tag is absolutely ridiculous. Surely the materials didn't equal a quarter of the cost.

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  8. cool ,maybe they should create the flying suit too

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  9. Trains are the way to go. Trains, trains everywhere.

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  10. It IS a car that flies, but not like the ultimate hoovercraft kind of thing.

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  11. nice blog buddy!

    Followed and will support daily!
    http://all-around-toto.blogspot.com/

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  12. That was just amazing... haha!

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  13. This is so amazing!

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  14. I have a preorder for one.

    World of Warcraft Cheats@
    http://www.blizzardhacks.com

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  15. very cool. I havnt seen that yet.

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  16. i wonder if i can rent one somewhere....

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  17. that second video is one of the craziest things i've ever seem

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  18. hmmm.... gliding dune-buggy is what comes to mind. :)

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  19. hahah.... Angry birds. Good stuff. Following.

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  20. Oh my gosh, I thought I'd never see the day. Love your blog, by the way! :)

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