Christmas - my best present

By Dan Jones in Reader

Posted in Gadget, Christmas, Hardware on January 12, 2009 at 10:26 am

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For those who havn’t seen them - mini Infrared controlled indoor helicopers are a complete blast…and amazing fun.    I got the linked one for a christmas present.

I’m seriously amazed, it had the whole family playing with it on Christmas day - and trying to control it.    We’d set up a take off and landing point in the living room, and everyone got involved trying to make the helicopter do what we wanted.

You see the remote control helicopers nowadays hover really well - but to make a real helicopter go forward, you angle the blades forward.   In these (simple) RC ones, you can’t do that, and instead use the rear propellor, and spins, to make the helicopter (very slowly) move to your destination.    Making it do what you want is therefore very tricky indeed - especially when small gusts of breeze from nearby air movement can catch  you off-guard and send the copter flying into a wall/furniture!

I’d say its been one of my favourite gadget presents ever - and even my 55 year old Dad enjoyed it a lot.   I sense a present for him on his birthday..

What presents did you get/love at Christmas?

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