is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Jetpack Joyride 2 is the first mobile game I’ve loved in a very long time.

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We've seen employees of JetPack Aviation in the sky before. But now, the company's letting people like you and me fly its newest jetpack. Ashley Esqueda is an award-winning video producer and on-air ...

Suddenly, here comes our man: ruggedly handsome with a mischievous streak and a pair of pricey La Perla swimming trunks that leave little to the imagination. On his back there’s what appears to be a ...

One of the classic dreams of aviation is to rise into the air with a flying machine strapped to your back. The jetpack dream is so iconic that it has shown up in movies ranging from "Thunderball" to ...

When I was a kid I figured by now I would be flying to the grocery store and back using my jetpack. I'm pretty bummed I still have to drive, but if you are rich, into water sports, and live near a ...

As I flew uncontrollably towards the side of a mountain ridge with an experimental jetpack strapped to my back, I began to wonder if I’d made the right decision. I was going too fast. Everything was ...

There is a game some people like to play when thinking about the future. Call it “Where’s my jetpack?” We pore over science fiction from years past (often the years when we were impressionable kids) ...

If you regularly travel with devices needing Wi-Fi, get Verizon's Jetpack MiFi 6620L. Its battery life is among the best we’ve seen in hotspots, it runs on the largest and fastest U.S. LTE network, ...

Roboticist and author Daniel Wilson's new book is: Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived. He speaks with Scott Simon about the fate of technologies from ...