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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 for another try.

It’s great exercise and lots of fun.

—Tim Anderson

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