Personal flying machines are a standard dream of the future. Hoverboards, promised in 1985's Back To The Future Part II lifted their riders off the ground and carried them on a thin cushion of air through the world. We have many more hoverboard-like devices now, but most are on wheels, or levitate over special magnetic railings. Zapata Industries' Flyboard aircraft is, as the name suggests, a board that actually flies. And now a major security company plans to buy it, and maybe even sell it to the military.

Implant Sciences is the company that intends to buy Zapata Industries. Previously, Implant Sciences made bomb detectors for the Department of Homeland Security--specifically the TSA--which is an important if unglamorous task. Moving into vehicles is a bold move, and the Flyboard is an especially bold craft.