iPhone-Controlled Paper Airplane: The Coolest
Toy Ever?
Is nothing sacred? I had
thought that paper airplanes might be the last holdout for fully-analog toys.
After all, all you need is a sheet of paper, a pair of functioning hands and a
place to throw stuff. Even in jail these things can be found, and while your
first attempts might not fly so well, the joy of the game is in the tuning and
improving of your designs.
But now even that simple
pleasure has been ruined by technology: the PowerUp 3.0 iPhone-Controlled Paper
Airplane is a thing which will soon be available.
It’s kind of like
cheating, but looks awesome just the same. The PowerUp consists of a carbon
fiber shaft, a propellor and a Bluetooth radio. You clip this to your paper
airplane and let it fly, controlling the thing from your iPhone using a
companion app. The app shows neat info like altitude and attitude, and there
plane will fly for ten minutes on a charge – or until it flies out of Bluetooth
range.
I want one, and I am
willing to spend the $50 to get one when it comes out of beta later this month
(and by “this” month, I mean October).
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