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Here’s a new personal watercraft that doesn’t burn gasoline, pollute the water, or make noise. It’s a human-powered hydrofoil ornithopter. Got that?
It’s a spidery aluminum contraption with wings that fly through the water as you jump up and down on the platform above. You jump off a dock with it and skim over the top of the water.
If you’re good enough, you ride it back to the dock and jump off again. If you’re not that good yet, you wipe out and swim it back to the dock ...
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