Video CES 2014: A Powered, Remote Control Paper Airplane (Video) 28
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Shai Goitein started with a powered paper airplane, the PowerUp 1, which was pretty cool. But he didn't stop there. The PowerUp 3 is a powered paper airplane you control with your smartphone. He calls this "a mixture of origami and technology." He also says it's a great toy, class project or whatever for the younger set, since kids start making paper airplanes at the age of six or seven. Adults? Why not? This is obviously a suitable toy for anyone with a two-digit (or three-digit) age number. And PowerUp 3.0 is a Kickstarter-funded project, with (at this writing) $928,091 pledged -- against a $50,000 goal, with another 15 days of Kickstarter funding left to go. There's also a smartphone-controlled PowerUp paper boat kit. Unlike the PowerUp airplane kits, it's not sold out (at this writing). Yet.
Re:Smart phones make poor remote controls (Score:4, Informative)
well, kickstarter says you can get one for $30 -- but if they hit $2m in pledges, they're incorporating a pinhole camera to the design.
Raising $1m (which looks like it'll likely happen) will enable "dogfight" mode where the first person to hit the fire button once two planes are close enough to each other will cause the other plane's engine to stall. They've already passed the multi-control (big plane with multiple engines, or multiple planes flying in tandem) and Android targets.
Re:Doesn't look like it can turn (Score:4, Informative)