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2010's Most Innovative Tech Product Is Not a Damn Jetpack

Posted November 16, 2010 8:07 AM

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Ah, November: leaves are falling, Thanksgiving is coming, and magazines start rolling out their year-end "Best Tech" lists. Time.com published "The 50 Best Inventions of 2010" last week, and as one would expect, it's larded up with plenty of shiny flying things that no one on Earth needs.

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11/16/2010 9:54 AM

Hmmm, let me think about that.

Jet pack..... newfangled glue.

Jet pack..... newfangled glue.

Jet pack.... newfangled glue.

Okay. Sorry. I'm voting jet pack.

Shiny.

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11/17/2010 3:03 PM

The newfangled glue is pretty amazing and available to anyone right now.

http://www.instructables.com/contest/sugru/ shows the versatility of the stuff. Custom shoes, metal casting, a monopod from a walking pole and a stop motion puppet were among the winners of the contest. The flying backpack is just useful to burn financially and probably crash and burn physically too.
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