"Iron Man" fans can now get their hands on jet packs similar to those seen in the movies and relive their wildest superhero fantasies in the air.
The device can lift a person up to 12,000 feet in the air and keep them hovering there for several minutes. Only nine of the custom-built suits are available for sale and each one will set you back about $443,000, NBC News noted.
The jet pack was designed by Richard Browning, an English inventor, and made by his U.K.-based tech startup Gravity Industries, according to Selfridges, a London department store that stocks the suit.
"It's an entirely pure form of complete three-dimensional freedom," Browning told NBC News.
"Despite the thundering power and chaos around you, it is almost peaceful," he added in a tweet.
Browning believes it will be some time before traveling by jet pack takes on with the rest of the world but he is confident it will happen.
"Just like the first motor cars, which were noisy, smelly and inefficient…we have some way to go before you could commute by jet suit," he said, according to NBC News.
The jet pack certainly has some serious credentials backing it up, including a world record for the fastest speed set in a jet suit, The HuffPost noted.
Browning smashed the record in his self-designed suit, reaching speeds of 32 mph.
Other similar inventions are floating around the world but none seems to top Browning's record-grabbing invention.
Officials in Hawaii have their hands full with people wearing a contraption called the Jetlev, which can lift a person 30 feet high by pumping water from a backpack through a hose connected to a small, unmanned boat.
There is also Jet Pack International, which gained attention when its vice president crashed one of his products in Denver during a test flight.
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