Tired of the limited legroom, bad food, and worse movies you have to put up with during a flight? Well, it’s time to bust out your company credit card and get yourself a Martin Jetpack , which has just become the first commercially available jetpack . Driven by a pair of washing machine-sized …

Man, MIT is making all of these other places of higher learning look silly. For what seems like the fortieth time this month , scientists at the university have revealed yet another breakthrough that might just change the way we compute in the future. Polyethylene, which is about as common a polymer …

You’re looking at a mosquito who got taken down mid-flight by a “Death Star” laser gun designed by Nathan Myhrvold . The malaria-carrying pest never saw it coming, but you can watch everything happen over and over again in this video. The idea behind the “Death Star” laser is that it could…

That failed terrorist attack yesterday might make international flights a whole lot less enjoyable. Passengers are reporting that new restrictions are in place, and their severity varies flight-to-flight. Among the reports: No electronics allowed. Updated: Update 2: The TSA also released this statement, which seems to confirm that electronics usage …

Last night the first ever trailer for Iron Man 2 was released, and it is jam-packed with spoilery goodies. Here’s a shot-by-shot break down of what we noticed. Uh oh, Pepper looks pissed. And Tony looks alone. What happened to all his friends? Garry Shandling makes his big debut as …

If you like your links hyper, here is that AP story , AT&T’s financial sheet [PDF] , and the post in which Fake Steve Jobs originally pointed out this disparity . Namaste.

Brandon Mendelson is the co-author of a public domain mash-up, Dracula And Kittens . Follow @BJMendelson on Twitter for updates on this and other projects. Considered to be one of the worst films ever made, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is available to post, in its entirety, on your website. You …

Now that Twitter Lists have been rolled out to everyone, and the Lists API is in the wild , the next thing for Twitter users to look out for is Lists support in their favorite desktop, mobile, and web applications. Today, Seesmic Desktop appears to be the first to market with full…

We’ve seen Tweets posted by plants, a space shuttle and even a house, so we shouldn’t be particularly surprised to hear that commercial jets are now Tweeting and posting Facebook messages (sorta). In fact, we think the idea is ingenious. Admittedly, it’s not the plane itself doing …

The historians once pontificated that we’d all be cruising about in flying cars right around the year 2000, and while that whole Y2K fiasco threw us a tad behind schedule, it looks like the future may actually still be upon us. Parajet, the same company responsible for that downright unnerving personal flying machine …