CES’s coolest toy: a dragonfly
I saw the flying dragonfly over in the Sands today. $50. The company that builds these, WowWee, has some awesome stuff.
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January 11th, 2007 at 12:42 am
$50 for that vs. $500 for an iPod? My mind is made up … although it would be an easy decision since my 2 year old would probably break either, might as well go for the cheaper alternative.
Anita ;)
January 11th, 2007 at 12:57 am
The Dragonfly isn’t a robot at all, considering that’s primarily what WowWee does now, but it may arguably be the most fun. It’s a bit of a challenge to learn to fly well, and the trick (spinning free fall) you saw in the video is new to me, and I’ve been playing with for a while!
Editor, RoboCommunity
January 11th, 2007 at 1:07 am
What no VIDEO? Went to their site but couldn’t find anything either?
January 11th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Cool stuff! Here’s my video of the Dragonfly in action at CES….
http://bbenz.typepad.com/softwaresoapbox/2007/01/flytech_dragonf.html
I thought the Ologic robot was pretty cool too…it doesn’t fly, but it had an interesting little personality….
http://bbenz.typepad.com/softwaresoapbox/2007/01/very_cool_littl.html
January 11th, 2007 at 3:03 am
want one :-)
January 11th, 2007 at 3:42 am
@Robert: if I were you - clear that I am absolutely not :) - I would order them a couple of flying Robert Scoble and hand them out to people who suffer from scoblenvy.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Although they have one of the worst commercials I have ever seen, the chimp “Wowee Alive” over on their website looks awesome. A perfect thing to break out in the middle of a party, when everyone has a little buzz.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:43 am
That looks pretty fun. That said, I don’t have 5$ much less 50$, so I’m left to simply admire.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:57 am
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. :-)
January 11th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Now you’ve got your priorities right Robert! We need more toys! :)
January 11th, 2007 at 6:07 am
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 ;)
January 11th, 2007 at 6:57 am
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.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Neat toy, now put GPS and video on it and you have really got something.
Guy
January 11th, 2007 at 8:19 am
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.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:11 am
[...] Robert Scoble posted about the Dragonfly (produced by WooWee last night at CES. A picture of the flying (it seems the name is fitting) Dragonfly is located at the Technology Evangelist. Brian Benz posted a video available at his blog, visit the post here. [...]
January 14th, 2007 at 8:16 am
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.
January 15th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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January 18th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Cool. I will post a link from The Coolest Guy On The Planet. We reaport on all the coolest things, and this is cool.
Raymardo