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Stay Safe While Camping by Sleeping Inside a Big Bear
Don't you hate it when you're camping and you get mauled by a bear? I do, and apparently, so does Eiko Ishizawa. That's why the eclectic designer invented "The Great Sleeping Bear," a sleeping bag made to resemble a big brown bear. The idea is simple: if you're sleeping in one of these and a bear comes across your campsite looking for a meal, it will think you're a fellow bear and opt to eat your friends and family instead. (Apparently, bears are pretty dim.) Of course, there could be a downside as well. What if you make a particularly attractive bear?
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The JetLev-Flyer: Coming Soon to a Body of Water Near You
If this thing is for real, it's one of the craziest innovations to hit water sports in years. A German businessman named Lars Ramke recently unveiled the JetLev-Flyer, an aqua jet pack that enables people to levitate ten meters above the water's surface and travel horizontally as fast as 65 kph for up to two hours. The contraption, which was shown for the first time last month at Boot Düsseldorf 2009, has a gas-powered pump that sucks water up through a 40-meter hose and blasts it downward at a pressure high enough to allow an adult human to fly. It doesn't look like the safest thing in the world - collisions with boats and docks seem likely - but that will just provide some good fodder for failblog and its ilk. Anyway, it's got to be safer than a regular jet pack, if only for its limited altitude and water landings.
