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A Quadropter And An RC Car Had A Baby. This Is What It Looks Like
Remote-controlled cars? Awesome. Quadropters. Exceptionally rad-endowed. How about sticking them together? Not crudely with dollar-store cyanoacrylate, but sophisticated engineering know-how and first-rate materials. That’s Witold Mielniczek’s “B” in a nutshell. Well, a polycarbonate chassis, actually.
Finally, Drones That Deliver Beer
We’ve seen tacocopters and burrito bombers and though those will probably be real someday, neither is going to be really delivering anything any time soon. These beer drones, on the other hand, might actually be delivering real beer to real people. In South Africa. Maybe.
Remote-Controlled Heli-TARDIS Is Exactly What The Doctor Ordered
We know that the TARDIS, Doctor Who’s preferred method of transport, can traverse both time and space. But what if it could only manage the latter… and an air-filled one at that? The Doc would need to make certain… modifications… to get his trusty phone box airborne, modifications you too can enjoy.
You Really Should Watch This Aerobatic RC Plane Competition
Make anything remote-controlled and it’s automatically more awesome by a factor of eleventy-billion. But if you’re able to do something clever with said thing like, say, performing mesmerising aerobatic stunts that appear to defy physics, measuring the coolness level becomes an impossible task.
Watch This Glider Fall From The Edge Of Space In First-Person
When Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space, we got some crazy, crazy footage out of the deal, but it was just a little bit…dizzying. Flying a remote-controlled glider down from similar heights doesn’t take nearly as much balls, but damned if the footage isn’t just as amazing.
The Next Fast And The Furious Movie Needs More RC Cars
The Super Bowl trailer for the next Fast & Furious movie had a lot of things, including tanks, stunts and tough guys making angry faces. What it had a deplorable lack of, however, was remote control cars.
It’s Completely Safe To Crash This Fake RC Blimp In Your Living Room
Taking a few notes from the Hindenburg disaster, China’s Amax Toys has created what appears to be a remote control flying zeppelin letting you recreate the glory days air travel. But upon closer examination, it’s actually a dual-rotor RC helicopter with a rollcage designed to only look like a blimp.
Dare To Dip And Dive With This Duo Of Damn Durable Drones
There are plenty of quadcopters out there that you can buy if you want, but they tend to have one or more of the following downsides: they are expensive, fragile, difficult to fly. Just one can be a bummer, any pair is twice the drag, and all three just all out sucks. The pair of Arial tricksters Air Hogs rolled out for Toy Fair 2013 soar above those troubles.
Incredibly Detailed Tiny RC Tank Even Sounds Like The Real Thing
If you’re bored of the recent trend of tiny RC cars and helicopters, a company called Armortek has a line of incredibly detailed RC tanks that will surely pique your curiosity. The Centurion Mk5/2 is a 1/6-scale behemoth that even sounds like the real thing thanks to a petrol-powered engine and real metal treads.
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