CES’s coolest toy: a dragonfly

$50 for that vs. $500 for an iPod? My mind is made up ... although it would be an easy decision since my 2 year old would probably break either, might as well go for the cheaper alternative.

Anita ;)

The Dragonfly isn't a robot at all, considering that's primarily what WowWee does now, but it may arguably be the most fun. It's a bit of a challenge to learn to fly well, and the trick (spinning free fall) you saw in the video is new to me, and I've been playing with for a while!

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What no VIDEO? Went to their site but couldn't find anything either?

Cool stuff! Here's my video of the Dragonfly in action at CES....
http://bbenz.typepad.com/softwaresoapbox/2007/0...

I thought the Ologic robot was pretty cool too...it doesn't fly, but it had an interesting little personality....
http://bbenz.typepad.com/softwaresoapbox/2007/0...

want one :-)

@Robert: if I were you - clear that I am absolutely not :) - I would order them a couple of flying Robert Scoble and hand them out to people who suffer from scoblenvy.

Although they have one of the worst commercials I have ever seen, the chimp "Wowee Alive" over on their website looks awesome. A perfect thing to break out in the middle of a party, when everyone has a little buzz.

That looks pretty fun. That said, I don't have 5$ much less 50$, so I'm left to simply admire.

The heck with the Apple/Cisco wars, this is cool! My 8 year old daughter saw me playing the video just now and now she wants one. :-)

Now you've got your priorities right Robert! We need more toys! :)

Fantastic product and they also have something called Wowwee Alive life Size Chimp!

super stuff this guys have done a grt job in past too....

My 5 years young son just read this post with me ;)

That's awesome! I'm definitely going to have to get one.

That could be fun at work too, I can just imagine the receptionist's face when a large robotic dragonfly buzzes her cubicle.

Neat toy, now put GPS and video on it and you have really got something.

Guy

I don't see the dragonfly on their site after waiting the several minutes for their site to load -- not everybody is on high speed all the time, but they forget apparently as there was no bypass.

We fly remote control helicopters sometimes and they aren't easy. I gotta believe this little gem is more difficult to keep airborn. Wonder how many you go through before you master it.

Hmm Robot Dragonfly? Might need some work on the concept - some flash memory (say 100gig), wireless connectivity, large display, and 3megpix camera and Apple may have its next big thing. Behold we have the idragonfly.

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