All the commentary are looking at this wrong. Its a tech demo. The tech are thrusters that can move an object around in 3 dimensions precisely. This can be shrunk down, put on an exo-skeleton and boom you have Ironman suits. This could be made even smaller and you have micro drones for moving around in space. The uses for this, eventually, will be plentiful.
I didn't realized it also could do time travel. It's four directions of freedom. Also precise thrust vectoring is all ready well established drone tech. This is not something new. Shrinking it into a wearable suit runs into energy density and heat limits, not just a size problem. Which is another reason why this is just a stunt and nothing actually practical.
Yes your right, this technology isn't new in itself but new in its implementation.
Jetpacks are becoming safer and eventually most cars may be implemented with the system if it does become viable.
Here's a tip for the science/ technology space: not everything that is revealed or released becomes common or is successful in itself but the fact they are released gives it the possibility to become so and allows more inventions closely related to be made and improve like how the release of the black berry phone allowed apple to become what it is today.
If you attached those thrusters to a human and tried to make them fly like iron man you’d rip their limbs off the second you fire the thrusters. Believe it or not the iron man character is not based on real science
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u/AdhesivenessTight400 7h ago edited 5h ago
All the commentary are looking at this wrong. Its a tech demo. The tech are thrusters that can move an object around in 3 dimensions precisely. This can be shrunk down, put on an exo-skeleton and boom you have Ironman suits. This could be made even smaller and you have micro drones for moving around in space. The uses for this, eventually, will be plentiful.