Tag Archive for 'remote-control'

“What’s that you’ve got there, little Johnny?”
“Oh, hi mister Tom, it’s a robot skateboarder!  He has an mp3 player attached to its leg to listen to while he skates around, and there’s a USB and SD memory card slot too!”
“No, Johnny, I meant that cigarette in your other hand.  Come on, let’s go and find your [...]

I’ve been pretty harsh on universal remote controls in the past.  It’s not that I don’t see the point of them - quite the opposite, in fact - but just that manufacturers seem to be in a race to fit as many buttons as possible in and end up with something that’s more difficult to [...]

The BladeRunner Recon by Interactive Toy Concepts made its first appearance at the CES Unveiled earlier tonight.  I was thinking of the best way to mount a digital camera on the original Mosquito, but there’s absolutely no way to do it.  However, I won’t need to rack my brains any longer thanks to the soon [...]

Brando is selling the world’s smallest RC Helictoper. Called the Picooz by Chinese manufacturing company Silverlit, it comes in red, yellow, and blue. The copter has some very small dimensions, weighing in at only 10g and 167mm in length.

A large remote control is included, and it looks bulky compared to the plane. The controller is [...]

So this looks like some tacky aftermarket car alarm key-fob, doesn’t it; it therefore comes as something of a surprise that it might be soon in the hands of very, very rich people.  We’re talking yacht-rich, and moreover the kind of yachts that can be operated via remote control.  It’s made by Cabela and is [...]

Having seen various sites proclaiming R/C Helicopters the “must have” toy of this festive season, I’ll be interested to see the feedback from nations of new pilots trying to get to grips with their whirligigs.  There’s already some great comments back on our Micro Mosquito post - both positive and negative - and now I4U [...]

Cool as it might be, having a SideShow supplemental display on the outside of your laptop isn’t the most essential thing.  Yes, it’s handy to be able to check your calendar or address book without booting Windows up fully, but most power-users (i.e. the people who would be most likely to use SideShow) will already [...]

If you read my lyrical waxing about the Bang & Olufsen video history tour the other day, then you might be impressed with this watch.  Designed to control the essential functions of a Beocenter stereo system, despite the modern appearance it was in fact made back in 1986 as a very limited production run.  The design [...]

You’re a petrol-head, you live for the thrill of the open road.  Your dreams are filled with the roar of mighty Ferrari racing cars, and you’d give your left lung (or at least someone’s left lung) to get behind the sculpted wheel of an F1 car.  But your desires are greater than your talent, and [...]

I harshed on the Monster Remote Control back in November, criticising it for the vast quantity of confusing buttons and the fact that it would likely give a non-geek a coronary if faced with trying to merely start a DVD playing, but RemoteShoppe decided to give it - and the rest of Monster’s “Central Control” [...]