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Electric RC Car Can Hit 160km/h Faster Than Your Real Car Can

6:20AM December 2, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

With a top speed of over 160km/h and a 0-60 time of just 2.3 seconds, the Traxxas XO-1 just made its way onto countless Christmas lists. Even if it’s only recommended for experts racing on a closed course. More »

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Steam-Powered RC Trike: The Apex Of Mechanical Eye Candy

2:40AM November 17, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

It’s slow, it’s pink, and it’s piloted by an innocent-looking stuffed animal wearing goggles. But that doesn’t make YouTube user prallplatte’s remote control trike any less badass. Better still: the trike is actually powered by steam, courtesy of a large boiler running down its spine. That’s crazy. More »

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Smuggling Phones Into Prison With Toy RC Helicopter Is A Great Idea If You Don’t Crash

4:40AM September 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

We’ve seen a million and one clever ways to smuggle a mobile phone into a prison before. Hidden inside buttholes, baked into bread and even shot over with a bow and arrow but flying in a phone with a RC helicopter into the prison might be the most tech-savvy way yet. Too bad it crashed. More »

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The Printable, Raceable R/C Koopa Shell

12:20PM August 6, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Anyone who’s played Mario Kart knows the terror of seeing these shells bearing down in their rear-view (not the blue! Anything but that!). Now these leader-seeking missiles are coming to the real world in the form of adorable R/C racers. More »

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BlueDrone R/C Racer Probably The Closest You’ll Get To Driving A GT-R

5:20AM July 20, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

The 2012 Nissan GT-R is a $US90,000, 530hp street rocket. The BlueDrone R/C car… not so much. But at least it’ll hurt less when you wrap it around a tree. More »

Gadgets

No One Will Know You’re Controlling Griffin’s Helo TC From Your iPhone

9:39PM July 14, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Costing a damn sight less than the $US300 Parrot AR Drone, Griffin’s Helo TC helicopter can be flown by an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using a free compatible app. More »

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Watch The Fastest RC Car Break The World Speed Record

1:00AM June 11, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

260km/h. That’s how fast Nic Case’s Schumacher Mi3 was going when it broke the RC world speed record. More »

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It’s Tricky To Rock… An R/C Car?

11:20PM June 2, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Oh, legendary rappers and their follies. If it isn’t guns, bitches and bling, it’s cars – though DMC of Run DMC fame has taken a decidedly more minuscule approach to his car obsession. Drive this way? More »

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Light Painting With An R/C Helicopter

4:00PM June 1, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

You can’t go wrong when you mix long exposure photography with a moving object. It’s even better when you have control over that moving object and use it to do some light painting. More »

Science

Power This Little RC Car With Soft Drink Can Tabs

10:40AM April 19, 2011 | Husain Sumra

The car manufacturers have it wrong – we don’t need hybrids or electric cars. We need cars that run on discarded junk food containers – like the DAlH2Orean remote-controlled car! Two Spanish engineers from the Polytechnic Institute of Catalonia figured out a way to power the little car with soda can tabs. More »