drone designers Marque Cornblatt and Eli Delia of Game of Drones fame have solved the biggest woe that has plagued drone flyers aka RC quadcopter pilots: breakage of frame. the duo wants the Rugged Drone Airframe (officially, dubbed the Sumo Quad) be the last airframe you will ever buy.
the Arduino-powered LEGO Technic RC Car is where your love for LEGO and RC cars come together, but in a way that you will get a little more involved then just opening the box and assembling the various bricks and technic parts together. drawing its inspiration from another fellow contributor
everyone knows the obligatory car stunts in James Bond movies are make believe, but that doesn’t stop fans from admiring and fantasized about those stunts. seriously, don’t do that. those stunts are, well, stunts and should be limited to your fantasy. you certainly don’t want to ruin your lovely Aston Martin DBS V12
we can’t make out what kind of vehicle the Parrot Jumping Sumo is, so we are just going to go with the French firm description of “half robot, half insect” vehicle. also introduced at the CES, along with the MiniDrone, the Jumping Sumo is probably the most exciting land-going remote control toy
instead of offering yet another minute update to the A.R.Drone such as the recent “power edition“, Parrot has a new flyer to showoff at this year’s CES and it is called the Parrot MiniDrone. though termed “mini”, this baby is hardly a scaled down version of the A.R.Drone;
fancy doing the Ken Block’s breathtaking “Gymkhana Six”? well, actually if you are seriously up to it, you can, but with a 1/18th scale radio control version of Block’s dirt-kicking, ride of choice, the GRC Ford Fiesta.
with no less than 20 birds in its arsenal, Swann is certainly no stranger to RC flying toy (even one that drops bubbles!), but a quadcopter is something new to the lineup, which is what makes it worthy of a mention. looking like an aircraft that pops out of a sci-fi movie, the Swann Quad Starship RC Quadcopter is propelled by four rotors, each having its own protective guard.
had enough of iPhone-controlled vertical take-off aircraft? how about a change from that and go for a smartphone-controlled airplane instead? though the company behind this slow flyer, Germany-based TobyRich, claimed the SmartPlane as the world’s first smartphone-controlled airplane, it is technically not the first smartphone-controlled toy aircraft to take to the sky.
the iBug RC Robotic Bug you see here is not the newest of the new, but still, it makes an awesome Christmas stuffer for this Holiday Season and looks pretty cute too, well, in a creepy way, that is. hailing from China’s Shenzhen BaiYuYi Electronics company, who basically deals with all things electronic, the iBug RC Robotic Bug is a close relative to the firm’s iRoach, a robotic cockroach.
with the Griffin MOTO TC Rally, Griffin takes step up in blurring the line between reality and virtual reality. app-controlled remote control ain’t need, but the MOTO TC Rally not only stands out with its realistically-style vehicle (and size too), but also introduces impact sensors on the toy vehicle’s bumpers to detect damage caused by
being a non-pilot, a camera-equipped radio controlled rig like this Hubsan X4 FPV RC Quadcopter is probably the closest you will ever get to the front seat of an aircraft. clad in a lightweight airframe, the X4 FPV is a full-fledge radio controlled quadcopter with a 6-axis flight control system, coreless motors and adjustable gyro sensitivity