French jet ski champion Franky Zapata made some serious waves back in 2011 when he showed off his ambitious water-jet Flyboard, which uses a jet ski motor to pump water through a pair of boots and ...
Remember when the concept of a hoverboard was only something seen in cartoons or comic strips? Even imagining that something like this could one day exist seemed farfetched. But in 2011, the world met ...
Back in 2011, French jet ski champion Franky Zapata launched the Flyboard, which sent swimmers skyward propelled by a jet of water. Three years on he's put a new spin on the idea, revealing the ...
When footage of a flying hoverboard first emerged last month, many thought it was fake, because the relatively tiny device appears to be breaking the laws of physics. But the "Flyboard Air" from ...
Craig Smith had seen videos of flyboarding and thought it looked like fun. However, when he had the chance to try it himself, it was way more fun that he ever expected. “It was amazing,” said Smith, a ...
After a recent unsuccessful attempt to cross the English Channel using his jet powered flyboard. French inventor Franky Zapata has now successfully crossed the Channel completing the 22-mile (35.4-km) ...
Though the sky is ripe for disruption with jetpacks and flying cars, we are stuck on the ground partly because we want to be. By Heather Murphy Over the weekend, a video of a man gliding over Paris on ...