Wired: Can't you buy a jet pack with your pay-cable fortune?

Hellboy found himself airborne and wishing he had a jet pack.

Or how about the jet pack Bond used in Thunderball?

A mini-fig on a jet pack races up and smashes it into smaller blocks.

Of course, the first thing I typed in was " jet pack".

Would you be game to fly the jet pack?

MM wears a giant rocket jet pack on his back and carries a big blaster.

He pulled free and thumbed the jet pack's controls, driving himself straight up into the air.

A jet pack you strap on your back.

He reinvents the jet pack, of course.

He also had to wear a life-support backpack containing water, oxygen, self-rescue jet pack, and radio equipment.

What happened to jet pack technology?

Had the jet pack fired yet?

If that tether broke, she could use her SAFER jet pack to propel herself back to the station.

Which, given the jet pack on his back, was more like leaning on something rather than lying flat.

Finally, we ask, can quantum mechanics do anything to develop small, lightweight batteries to power a personal jet pack?