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  • Where a radio controlled Nissan Sentra SE-R is used to sell the real thing

    Where a radio controlled Nissan Sentra SE-R is used to sell the real thing

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Car commercials are as old as TV. There’s nothing really exciting about the format anymore because we already know the format. To sell a luxury car, a B-rate celebrity often points out the finer things. Trucks commercials showcase manly men preforming manly tasks. So it’s only fitting really that that an R/C car is the [...]

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  • Plug-and-play bomb system for radio-controlled model airplanes

    Plug-and-play bomb system for radio-controlled model airplanes

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    China-based Quanum is offering a bomb system called "Bombs Away" for radio-controlled model airplanes that can be installed "in seconds" and fits most of the planes with engine size 0.25 or bigger out there. All that users need to do is to connect the bomb's servo wire with a channel on the radio and then stick the bomb's release pod to the airplane.

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  • The Quadcopter, or build your own Drone

    The Quadcopter, or build your own Drone

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    We told you about the AR.Drone that we saw at CES, but here's a homebrew alternative that you can build today. Sure, it's not iPhone/iPod controlled, but it does most everything else: fly, hover, look cool, terrorize the neighborhood.

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  • RC model of Star Trek USS ENTERPRISE swimming underwater (video)

    RC model of Star Trek USS ENTERPRISE swimming underwater (video)

    Posted on December 24, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm not an RC gadget expert, but modding static model kits of space ships so that they're water-proof and can be RC-controlled to make them then "fly underwater" seems like a very, very geeky thing to do to me. Take this 1/350 scale replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A space ship from Star Trek, for example. Some person [JP] in Yokosuka, Japan, bought the static kit and transformed it into a space ship that can move and be RC-controlled underwater. The people belonging to the "underground" circle of these self-made gadgets call themselves "Aqua Modelers" and meet up on a regular basis [IT] to exchange ideas and show off their works each year. The last one apparently just took place a couple of days ago. Video after the jump.

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