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Boarding, and we have a new jet pack coming out as well. this is what set the industry off. >> what were you doing before this? >> before this i was in college, and i was study information systems and my friend showed me a youtube video and i said let's start a business. >> sometimes it happens that way, one minute you are going about your life studying information systems. the next thing you know you watch a video online and leave it all behind and build a business that lets people fly, defy gravity. what is going to happen? are we going to g out on a boat? >> we're going to walk down to the ...

Back of it is actually a jet pack just in case their little safety line broke and they went tumbling off into space like you saw in "gravity." they could pull down this handle, a joystick pops out, and then they could actually fly their jet pack. more like a parachute, really, just to get you back safely and grab onto the station. you sure don't want to use it, but it's nice to have it just in case. >> oh, i bet so because you've done spacewalks yourself, and you were actually blinded in a spacewalk? tell us about that. >> yeah, on the inside of the suit, there's a bunch of different chemicals...

Stance. and this foot turned in a little bit that way. >> right. >> yep. so just hold that down. roll the wheel forward to go forward and pull back to slow down. ♪ >> that's right. it's happening. oh, yeah. sure. i don't see what's so difficult. call the attorneys. so, will a skateboard change the way we get around? is the next billion-dollar idea incubating in a maker fair? am i ever going to get a freaking jet pack? who knows. but one thing's for sure, the democratization of innovation, that is a big idea. and with mark hatch at the helm, you can bet it's spreading.

Didn't. >> good. couple years ago in san franciscos, i met a guy named mark hatch. mark told me he was going to change the world. we were in a bar at the time so i took his claim with a grain of salt. turns out, though, mark is the ceo of something called techshop. when i asked him what it was, he suggested i visit a maker fair to get a sense of who his customers actually were. so i did. brought a camera with me as well just in case something interesting happened. glad i did. the maker fair draws artists, craftspeople, tech geeks, and, well, people who just like to make stuff. like a fully f...

>> yep. so just hold that down. roll the wheel forward to go forward and pull back to slow down. ♪ >> that's right. it's happening. oh, yeah. sure. i don't see what's so difficult. call the attorneys. so, will a skateboard change the way we get around? is the next billion dollar idea incubating in a maker fair? am i ever going to get a freaking jet pack? who knows. but one thing's for sure, the democratization of innovation, that is a big idea. and with mark hatch at the helm, you can bet it's spreading. >> we've got eight locations now. we've got 35 in the pipeline. all basically funded by ...