Hirobo is a Japanese company that’s best known for its line of smallish remote control helicopters. So that’s nice. But now, the company is thinking bigger. Not a lot bigger, but just big enough to carry you to work and back every day in a one-seater coaxial personal microhelicopter.
Called the HX-1, Hirobo’s helicopter can hoist a single person into the air at speeds of over 60 mph for up to 30 minutes at a stretch. It’s completely electric, which makes it quiet enough that you can hold a conversation with your nonexistent passenger, and might even be light enough that wannabe aviators won’t need a pilot’s license to fly it, which is either a wonderful or terrible thing.
via DVICE
