Posted on 01/15/2007 4:12:08 PM PST by Reaganesque
January 15, 2007
Now here’s an opportunity for a bright young lad. The Thrustpac pushes you along on the device of your choice, and can be used for motive power on skates, canoes and other water craft, scooters, wheelchairs, skis and bicycles and we’re sure there are lots of ways to use it. It comes in three different power specifications, from a 12 pound four-stroke pack offering 10 pounds of thrust through to a 20 pound (weight) pack offering 20 pounds of thrust from a two-stroke motor. Each ThrustPac is tailor-made for you, with prices starting at US$900 and running through to US$2000. One of these will enable your pushbike to do the round-town legal limit, so it’s a sure-fire enabling technology for something … perhaps even a shot at the Darwin Awards.
It wouldn't look so dorky on a boat though. A kayak with one of those mounted on it would be a slick little boat.
If it can be run on methane, I know someone who can go round the world from Taco Bell to Taco Bell for basically free.
One look at it tells me that the manufacturer will be sued for lumbar injuries multiple times before they bave an opportunity to turn a profit.
Didn't Willie Coyote buy one of these from Acme Corp?
That contraption better not start up accidentally, buddy, or you'll be in the water in a heartbeat.
How long until someone tries this on a hang-glider?
Wow. Wish I were a trial lawyer.
Say, why don't we design cities around this thrustpac?
That thing on a skateboard will get you a Darwin award winner.
If you had one of these and a Segway, you would be a 21st Century environmental man. Chicks wearing Birkenstocks would be all over you.
This is even better!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-926587825785526870
This is even better!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-926587825785526870
I honestly think it will get much better and be a SERIOUSLY popular activity into this century.
I think it's been done already.
Holyfield vs. Bowe...1993. Fan Man.
[cough] gay [cough]
Nope. As this thing would be difficult to control [Segway by itself is hard enough - ask GWB], you'd ride yout propeller-driven Segway over the birkenstocked girls in no time.
Oh, the greenies will love that!!!
That it is made to be worn as a backpack, and long as it is, mounting it on a canoe or kayak might would cause stability problems...but a least it wouldn't be pulling you under when you went into the drink.
Next, when, inevitably, it started sucking water instead of air, you might decide that a low thrust electric trolling motor was a better alternative. Especially if it were salt water being sucked; engines think that really sucks big time.
At $900-2,000, instead of becoming Super Dork, why not buy a good, used powered two wheeler of one sort or another?
Twenty pounds of screaming 2-stroke hanging on your shoulders? Yech!
Oh, and don't twitch when you reach for your water bottle!
Not as much as this one.
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