One of my coworkers has one. There's been one of those here in the office for about a month. Whenever the fin-de-semaine feeling hits on a Friday afternoon, out it comes for a few laps of the office.

cool. I want one.

I just got one for father's day! I was trying to convince my wife that we should buy one for our daughter's 8th birthday next week, but she got one for me instead! She knows me well. It's fun!

My older son usually takes some ridiculous toy when he goes to Le Mans each year (he went this week) - this year it was a giant catapult affair that launches water bombs a claimed 300 feet (I'm waiting to hear if he has been strung up by the French as a result!). I thought (quietly to myself, naturally) that this was pretty awesome - then, blow me down, in today's paper there was an item about a saucer-shaped object that floats unassumedly in the swimming pool and is remote-controlled - the operator can surreptitiously position the object opposite a chsoen victim, line it up and then shoot a jet of water over 10 feet in their direction.

Now, should I tell my son about this.....?

No, but tell me about it.....:D please?

I saw some motorized pool chair "bumper cars" that looked really cool--but they looked a little too slow to be really fun

Catapult here and here... and the remote controlled jobbie here and here

Thanks CF. $130 is a little outside my budget, but that would be so neat for our pool (small neighnorhood pool -20 yards by 10, seating round the edge, everyone in range :D)

No law that I know of prevents you from hopping up those bumper boats.

Imagine a trolling motor and larger pitch prop?