Powerful waterborne hover platform looks amazing, if it's real

We all like a good bit of next generation technical wizardry, but when something looks and sounds too good to be true, it probably is

That was our first thought about upon viewing the Flyboard Air, a hovering waterborne device, but without the water jet pack and the splashy streams they produce

In a video posted on Saturday, a France-based company called Zapata Racing posted a video of the Flyboard Air. With a dramatic flourish, the device tester closes his helmet and launches into the sky, flying over water at high altitudes with none of the water jet streams apparent in the company's other hydro-propulsion products. Instead, we see a nearly invisible distortion of the air just beneath the device, indicating a jet stream of some sort Read more...