Feb 6 2008Mini Helicopter: Go Go Gadget Deathwish
First the personal hover device, and now the personal helicopter. Allegedly it's the world's smallest (and probably most dangerous). Now I value my head (mostly for my handsome face, my brain is pretty worthless) so you won't catch me anywhere near one of these things. But for the more adventurous person maybe this could be fun. And by it could be fun I mean it could be the last thing you ever do.
Tiny personal helicopter: pleasure machine or death trap? [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. notbob - February 6, 2008 4:12 PM
me want
2. radlad - February 6, 2008 4:36 PM
Go Go Gadget death copter!
3. andy cochrane - February 6, 2008 5:09 PM
i am amazed at how small that thing is! it needs a protective duct/guard around the outside circumference of the blades and a computerized control system to avoid fatal human overcorrection- there is one almost bad moment where he moves the control bars too quickly and has to recover it. i can see this thing tearing through a crowd of onlookers if they don't implement some good safety measures.
4. Anexio - February 6, 2008 9:17 PM
Safety? What the heck are you gayboys talking about?
If you wanna really laugh at death let you mother catch you using the death copter. You'll wish you were dead when she gets done with you.
5. guate6 - February 7, 2008 1:47 AM
Now, death aside, this would be amazing to have. It would provide you with a lot of fun, and in case the alleged zombie apocalypse ever gets here...a good way to decapitate them. Looks neat and I want a baker's dozen of them.
6. Tom - February 7, 2008 4:35 AM
If I really needed to fly around my backyard about 6 feet off the ground with my head attached to something - wouldn't I just rent one of those cranes they use in Mythbusters to fling stuff across the tarmac? I could then attach myself in some kind of sling around my SHOULDERS instead of my delicate neck with all those tendons and arteries and spinal columns. Hell, I could have a monkey at the crane controls - THAT would be exciting!
No sense of adventure but at least I could still enjoy an occassional WALK instead of decapitation and/or quadripalegicness (sp?).
7. Mike - February 7, 2008 7:46 AM
it's the famous helicopter-cap... but reinvented? With bars sticking out of it and actually making you fly 6ft high -who would want that though?- it just makes you look stupid (or even more stupid if, you know, you already were stupid etc).
8. aurora - February 7, 2008 11:02 AM
you guys are pussy ... isnt that what we always wanted ? to fly free and not surrounded by a cockpit .. we always wanted to fly like we have nothing on it like that jetpacks come on this thing is so small that is kool. Its like hanging on one of those giant remote control helicopter
9. groonk - February 7, 2008 12:25 PM
that may be foolhardy but DO WANT.
10. BlightedArt - February 7, 2008 3:13 PM
Nobody panic. He's wearing a helmet.
......................... o_O
11. Tammy - February 7, 2008 3:42 PM
I can totally see the paparatzi using these to track Brittany Spears soon.