The lovely folks at Paramountzone sent me a couple of shiny new toys to review. First, the Lightspeed i-Helicopter with on-board camera. As always with these Lightspeed choppers, you get a good selection of extra bits in the box, including two rotor blades and two tail rotors. With this one, you also get an 2 […]
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Turbo Drone RC Quadrocopter – hands on review
The nice people at Paramountzone sent me a Turbo Drone four channel remote controlled quadrocopter to review. It’s 36cm across (including the rotors, which are 13.5cm each), making it just about small enough to fly indoors. The 500mAh 3.7v li-po rechargeable battery makes it conveniently easy to get spares; I had the exact same battery […]
Lightspeed phone controlled i-Helicopter – hands on review
The nice people at Paramountzone were kind enough to send me a Lightspeed i-Helicoter to review. It’s an iPhone / iPad / iPod / Android controlled helicopter, and (having played with a few micro-copters in the past) I can honestly say this is the best I’ve seen. Rather than a separate remote control, the controller […]
GX Buggy micro RC car – hands on review
The Tomy GX Buggy is a micro remote controlled car from Tomy, the people who bought you the Q-steer and, before that, the Char-G. I reckon they’ve managed to come up with something even more fun here, and was very pleased when I was offered a sample to review. To get the obvious stuff out […]
Toshiba Qosmio G40
I recently received an interesting offer from TalkToshiba; they offered to lend me a laptop on the condition that I write an honest review of it. I get to play with a nice toy for a few weeks, you (and they) get to hear how I got on with it. Sounds fair to me. Let […]