If I cant buy a Jetpack can I atleast put one on Layby?

I've recently started to wonder, as you may have noticed, why I can't buy a Jetpack on eBay. I mean we are living past the year 2000, there hasn't been an Apocalypse or attack from alien cows - yet it seems strange that the science fiction of the 1950's hasn't yet been realised. But on the way home I was thinking maybe we are to an extent just focusing on the lack of personal upward propulsion.

Quite possibly the coolest thing I have seen in the last 24hours is the latest add ons you can get for your Tom Tom. If you dont know Tom Tom is by far the most fun to say GPS unit on the market at present. If your out on the roads you might notice about a third of all drivers have these small units attached to their dashboards. Car GPS is a trend which within the next few years will become as commonplace as 17 year olds being bounced from strip clubs at schoolies.

Anyway back to the cool part - you can get a GPS unit which will direct you from point A to B through the quickest route, or the one that avoids tolls, or using the most amount of curb surfing. You can pair up your GPS with your friends and keep track of them on your buddies list so you can know if they are nearby to meet up or for the more anal among us - lowjack your children. But the coolest thing is you can get your Tom Tom to tell you the directions as you go.. as John Cleese.

There is no way that is not cool. And if you were told you could have that 10 years ago? Science Fiction, completely unheard of and you should of stopped eating lead paint chips when you were a child living under those powerlines. But that is a little be awesome.

Lets kick this up a little more, it could be we've had some time to build upto this - so the concept of a car driving on hydrogen is nothing new, you saw one of those the other day. Perhaps we have slowly been wading deeper into the pool not quite at the level or pass the level where you dip your John Thomas. But what if you took a plunge, lets say your born today:

• You would of never heard of tape.
• Ipod is to Gameboy as Wham is to the Village People.
• There has always been an Internet.
• The Simpsons' repeats are still on TV.

And thats only by the time you turned 5. There are some constants of course, the Seekers will always be on their Final Tour, Australian Idol will still be on and to fill a tank of Petrol you would need to trade either a small child capable of making sneakers or a good kidney. On the flipside NASA would have Astronauts in training to live on the moonbase, Hybrid cars wouldnt be so much a novelty and you think Video Games look good now.

So you might be thinking thats nice, how do I get a piece of that action? Im not getting any further away from my next colon check. Simple - keep looking for whats cool. Theres always something new and interesting and just that little bit more awesome then the last - and you can enjoy it just by doing that, enjoying it. Your only as old as who your feeling I'm told so for those who are single or dating someone older try this, Actual age is more important then Mental Age only until your old enough to buy booze and get cheaper car insurance.

Just because your old doesnt mean you have to act it. Things arent crap just because you dont like them, they are different. Be open to change and opinions. Try something new or try something you havent done for a while. The older you get doesnt mean the more cheese and wine parties you have to have, just means your getting older.

Law of Nature says the young and spry win out in the end, I prefer to think the ones that arent dumb enough to cross the road in front of the truck but not the ones not game enough to think about crossing because there might be.

Andy. Fought the Law and the law decided to call it a draw.