{"id":94505,"date":"2016-06-09T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94505"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:41:46","slug":"googles-co-founder-is-making-a-flying-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/94505-googles-co-founder-is-making-a-flying-car","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s co-founder is making a flying car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google co-founder Larry Page is secretly building flying cars, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-09\/welcome-to-larry-page-s-secret-flying-car-factories\">Businessweek<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Page has personally invested in a number of startups involving flying cars since as early as 2010.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Page has even gone so far as to set up offices at one of the companyies&#8217; headquarters, affectionately being referred to as GUS &#8211; the &#8220;Guy Upstairs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The two startups, Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk have been developing their tech independently &#8211; with several prototype designs &#8220;already up and running&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear at this point if Page&#8217;s interest in the field is merely a hobby or whether we should truly expect flying cars in our near future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to GALAX Hall of Fame hardware lineup includes the fastest GeForce GTX 1080 in the world\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93743-galax-hall-of-fame-hardware-lineup-includes-the-fastest-geforce-gtx-1080-in-the-world.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">GALAX Hall of Fame hardware lineup includes the fastest GeForce GTX 1080 in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to E3 2016: Details, South African times and what to expect\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93947-e3-2016-details-south-african-times-and-what-to-expect.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">E3 2016: Details, South African times and what to expect<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to make it as a game developer in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93355-how-to-make-it-as-a-game-developer-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to make it as a game developer in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google co-founder Larry Page is secretly building flying cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[19301,1638,19299,19303],"class_list":["post-94505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-flying-car","tag-google","tag-larry-page","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94547,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94505\/revisions\/94547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}