Posts Tagged ‘helicopter’
Review Articles
Parrot AR Drone 2.0 Review
I was afforded many luxuries as a child – one of them included a gas-powered go-kart. Yet, an electric helicopter or plane was never in my arsenal of things to do. Long time resentment? You bet. That is until I got my...
Toys
This Remote Controlled Helicopter Sports a Built-in Roll Cage for Novice Flyers (video)
All kids yearn for the opportunity to fly remote controlled airplanes and helicopters. Sadly, they’ll usually destroy them on their maiden flight, since many of them aren’t designed to withstand the rigors that com...
Toys
Air Hogs Hover Toy Combines an RC Car & Helicopter (video)
It’s never an easy decision. Do you drive or do you fly? And no, we’re not talking about boarding a private jet or jumping behind the wheel of a car. Instead, we’re alluding to the activity called RCing, or...
Toy Reviews
Air Hogs Battle Tracker Review
The really great toys always have an element of danger to them: think the “shoot and shells” flying bullets from Mattel in the 60’s or any spring loaded pellet “gun” kids used to be able to buy. Now that the young’uns are prote...
Toys
Force Flyer: Glove Controlled RC Helicopter
Traditional RC helipcoters include a joystick based remote control. But in today’s Wii inspired world, that’s hardly a way to sell a toy to a tot, or an over grown child, otherwise known as a World of Warcraft gam...
Toys
Ultimate Quadrocopter (video)
So at this point quadrocopters are kind of old news, right? Wrong. Check out this video, which depicts an MWC Quadrocopter doing back flips, full loops and the sort of flying we’d expect to see from an alien spacecraft....
Concepts
Multicopter: A Manned Quadricopter Times Four (video)
Strap a yoga ball to 16 horizontally rotating propellers and apparently you can claim a world’s first. German aircraft company E-Volo slapped together something they’re calling a Multicopter and recently they achi...
Science
Spherical Flying Machine (video)
The idea of a Spherical Flying machine may not be all that exciting at first blush, but if you hit the above video you’ll see that it is in fact an extremely agile aircraft. Unlike a quadricopter, or more importantly a h...
lasers
Idiot Gets Arrested for Blinding Helicopter Cops with a Laser (video)
Laser pointers are not toys kids. Point them in the wrong direction and you might get punched in the face, or worse, arrested by the cops. Now, we know what you’re thinking: “I must look like an ant from those flyi...
iPhone
Griffin’s HELO TC Helicopter is Controlled by iPhone (video)
Got an old product that can be controlled via an old fashioned remote? Want to breathe life into it? How you ask? Just develop a compatible iPhone app. That’s what Griffin did…sort of. The HELO TC Helicopter is ...
Flight
Swann Micro Hornet Review
Having a nine year old son, I’m constantly bombarded by little R/C toys. It used to be just the normal cars and trucks, but lately it’s been helicopters. It’s normally tedious to see him with one of those ch...
Robots
Skynet Is Almost Here, Army Funding Autonomous Robo Helicopter
Should we be a little scared that this helicopter can take off, fly around, avoid obstacles and return home all without a preprogrammed flight path? Is Skynet upon us? Currently the Unmanned Little Bird, as it’s known, i...
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