LOL, Well in a way, No rubber bands, or launching, but a guy Definitely Put a pair of wings on and took flight, like for real, Hit the Jump to see the video, and read the technical story.


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a Dutch mechanical engineer, named Jarno Smeets worked for 8 months, throwing together special motion mechanism’s and software, causing himself to become a modern day da Vinci:

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Just like birds, humans have to amplify their locomotion to get control and get familiar with their new body expansion—the Wings. In my conception this is something which is independent of any hardware of software problem.
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Proof;

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