Mr. Future

Gilo Cardozo, a paramotor manufacturer (picture a parachute with a giant fan) had the notion four years back to attach a paramotor assembly to a car.

The result, he’s about to take halfway around the world.  The vehicle is a modified Rage Motorsport off-road racing buggy, and flies at speeds up to 80mph.   With chief pilot and expedition organiser Neil Laughton, Cardozo will fly and drive the two-seater more than 3,700 miles to Timbuktu. Setting off on January 14, they will take about 40 days to reach the city in Mali, west Africa.

Somehow, it’s … different than I’d pictured.  But hey, flying car!

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Mr. Future’s secret identity revealed!

As part of my ( beloved ) day job, I invent electronic toys for Atomocom.  We just had a bang-up great Toy Fair ‘08 showing, and to make a good week even better, New York Magazine just ran a small Toy Fair aftermath/artifact blurb on yours truly. 

( Now back to our regularly scheduled future-centric programming. )

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The four-story fire-breathing car-crushing robot, Robosaurus, will be on the block this January 12-20 at the annual Barret Jackson Collector Car Event / Auction in Scottsdale Arizona.

The beloved engine of destruction and noise has been a favorite in the monster-truck circuit since 1990. Owning it, I’m sure, has been the dream of every nine year old that’s watched it messily dissect a Buick.

So if you bought your own four-story fire-breathing car-crushing robot, what would you do with it?

(A: Anything you wanted to. )

Link to the press release ( Car Buyer’s Notebook via Robots.net)