12 Pieces Of Sci-Fi Tech That We Wish Were Real

3. Jetpack

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Come on, who doesn't want a jet pack? Anyone who tells you that the jet pack in GTA: San Andreas isn't their favourite vehicle is a god damned liar.

Jet packs have been a go-to gadget for most futurists since the Victorian period. People have long imagined that the commuter of the future will zoom around on their personal jet pack, but so far that dream has failed to come to fruition

We have gotten closer, but most of the prototypes we've managed to develop either only work on water, have such a limited fuel capacity that they can only remain airborne for minutes at a time, or have to remain tethered to something on the ground to provide them with power, rendering them about as useful as a chocolate bathtub.

The next question is whether you would really want to travel via jet pack. 

Flying around at high speeds at any kind of altitude is gonna get pretty cold and uncomfortable pretty fast - it sort of makes them the motorbikes of the personal flight world.

 
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