This Remote Controlled UFO Is Your Conspiratorial Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

I was abducted by aliens once when I was in college. I was walking home from class one night after a lecture on Shakespeare's The Tempest or something. It was cool and breezy, as I remember. But then it got a whole lot more breezy. Out of nowhere, a strange looking craft swooped down and hovered over my head. The next thing I knew, I was aboard the ship, drinking Tea and discussing the finer points of 16th century British literature in a wonderfully futuristic looking room. Then I woke up in my bed. Apparently I was the only one who saw the UFO, because there wasn't so much as a message board post about it afterwards.

This UFO toy—which is normally $20, but is now $15—is nothing like the one I saw, but reminds me of that day where I was likely probed in the name of alien science. Ugh. -AC

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Motion Controlled Remotes Are a Stupid Idea and Should Be Destroyed [Video]

Movea thinks it has a good idea. It thinks the Move TV remote, which uses Wii-like gestures to flip through channels, is something that should be in our lives. It's not. The Move TV is a premise beyond idiocy.

Motion controls make sense in some contexts. With your Wii, you can swing the controller like a baseball bat, aim it like a gun, or putt it like a club. It's fun, because it helps you pretend you're doing the virtual activity on the TV. You're tricking your brain a little bit! Kinect functions (well) along these same lines. You can't replicate the experience of punching someone with buttons as well as you can with your arm.

But a TV remote is simple. You're only going in two directions. Up or down. Left or right. Make something louder, or make it softer. Type in a channel. These are little tiny actions that are perfectly suited for little buttons moved with your little fingers. Remotes can be innovated—beautiful, even—just look at Apple TV's. But converting these actions to wild arm flappings, hand jerkings, and various wrist bobs isn't just stupid looking—it makes it harder to watch TV. What a great quality in a TV remote!

Look at the video. What requires less effort: shaking your wrist to move from one channel to another, or applying slight pressure to a button you're holding in your hand? Do you want to have to memorize different hand gestures for everything you might want to do to your TV? How could this possibly make your life easier?

The Move TV is the most absurd, shameless trend cash-in I've seen in some time. It makes using your TV harder. It makes motion controls alienating. It makes me want to throw it into a lake. Movea: burn this idea. [Engadget]

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Griffin Technology announces HELO TC remote controlled helicopter

by Edwin - on August 18th, 2011

Griffin Technology knows that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, which is why they have decided to go ahead with the release of their HELO TC remote controlled helicopter. What makes this remote controlled helicopter different from the rest that we have seen in the past? For starters, this particular model will be able to be controlled through any iOS-powered device via its touchscreen display. To put it in a nutshell, your iOS device is actually a remote control for the HELO TC – making it an even more indispensable part of your life, no?

Let us check out just what the HELO TC is able to bring to the table. For starters, this will be a twin-rotored, indoor helicopter that has been constructed using a lightweight metal frame complete with a black polycarbonate body. Equipped with a Flight Deck infrared module, you will plug that particular bit into an iOS device in order for it to transmit control signals to the helicopter.

You will be able to choose from two different flight modes – Touch Control, where we suspect most people would have a field day with it since it will rely on the multitouch display in order to control the HELO TC’s throttle and joystick, while there is the Tilt to Steer mode that relies on the iOS device’s accelerometers to get the navigating job done. For instance, if you tilt the iOS device, it will move the helicopter forward, back and side to side. Heck, the app is even able to record and store up to three Flight Plans so that you (or other “pilots”) can repeat a particular flight pattern in a jiffy.

The HELO TC comes with a built-in battery which can be juiced up from just about any USB power source, and that includes your computer’s USB port. As for the Flight Deck module, that will require a quartet of AAA batteries, where it will remain plugged within the iOS device’s headphone jack. Expect to fork out $49.99 for the HELO TC if you’re interested, where it ought to arrive in time for the holiday season.

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