Remote Control

This next product is for those who had those Stephen J. Channel TV-action dreams in the early eighties. I’m talking about The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, even 21 Jump Street. The Silverlit Heli-Mission SWAT truck is a fully functioning RC car with a bonus inside.

Not only is this SWAT truck feature bells and whistles of sirens, but the roof opens up to reveal a helicopter inside. There is a launch platform that rises, and the chopper takes to the air!

One can only assume that the helicopter is as remote controlled as the truck itself. However, if you notice the YouTube clip after the jump, there doesn’t appear to be any footage of the helicopter landing back in the SWAT truck. You should definitely watch the clip anyway, for the music alone. You got to love those 80s action flick music.

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My wife constantly complains that whenever we have a BBQ party, she never gets to see me because I’m always chained to the grill. But how else am I going to make sure the meat is grilled to perfection? Even with a meat thermometer, you leave a BBQ grill for too long you end up with charred beef … as in, to a cinder. The Grill Art Talking Remote Thermometer may mean freedom for those of us struggling with flames, wind, and smoke.

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There have already been several different Mario Kart toys that you can play with when away from the game.  Finally Halo is getting a little love now too.  Thanks to the Big Bad Toy Store, you can now own a remote control Halo themed toy.  Giving you even less time during the day that you’re not playing with something that is related to your Halo addiction.

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Regardless of how old you are, chances are a part of you wants to own a remote control toy car at one point in time or another. Well, ThinkGeek might have just the right tonic for you with the InfiniTrax Micro R/C Racetrack.

Tiny R/C vehicles… once the stuff of science fiction, are now trumping the slot car as the mini racing vehicle of choice. Problem is, with no well defined track and fuzz and cookie crumbs all over your carpet, serious racing is pretty much impossible. Now the InfiniTrax Micro R/C Racetrack gives you a smooth re-configurable racing surface perfect for small wheeled vehicles of all varieties. With 19 track sections and a checkered finish line, you can make dozens of different racing challenges.

Unfortunately, the $44.99 InfiniTrax Micro R/C Racetrack will not be equipped with any vehicles as you’ll need to come up with your very own, so expect to drop a fair amount of dollars if you want an exciting time.

PS3 owners, sit up and take notice - Logitech has just announced that its Logitech Harmony Adapter for the PS3 is readily available, letting you use your Harmony universal remote control with Sony’s latest gaming console. It will offer support for all 51 PS3 commands (yes, count them!), where you will be able to navigate the PS3 XrossMediaBar from afar (as long as the range permits, that is) without having to tussle with the PS3 controller’s form factor that was meant more for gaming than anything else. Those who are interested can pick up the Logitech Harmony Adapter for $59.99 while our friends across the pond can only do so in July.

Press Release

When I was a kid, TV remotes essentially had a handful of buttons for on, off, volume control, and the channel selector. That was it. But as TVs became more sophisticated and programming choices expanded beyond 3 networks and a gaggle of local channels, the remote control became larger and more complicated. Eventually, it became not only programmable, but some are quite expensive (on the order of up to $1,000 or more). The problem is that programmable all in one remotes that can handle your TV, Cable box, even Internet access have buttons that just never get used. Now researchers are seeking to change with GestureTek, a camera mounted on the TV which translates your hand movements into TV remote control functions.

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Now this is how you get your kids to go outside and play.  Buy them a toy that’s highly similar to their favorite video game.  Granted this method isn’t advised for kids that play the more violent games.  Somehow I see telling them to go outside and pretend they’re playing Grand Theft Auto in the outdoors causing some issues.  However, for those that enjoy Mario Kart, you can pick up these R/C toys that would be fun to race around the house or outside on some pavement.

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Nothing goes together like iPod Speakers and Remote Control Cars. Okay, those are two devices that don’t really pair together very well, but I can still remember the day when no one would have paired a cellular phone with a camera. Not that it was a long time ago, by the way.

In other words, you never know what two devices the electronic world is going to blend together. Bless Automatica has done it with the Remote Control car with iPod speakers.

So what can you do with this? Well, start by putting the speakers in the back, and take your pimped-out remote control car for a ride with some serious ghetto-blasting speaker action. Apparently, it can somehow hold these speakers on the back of the car, and the car will not tip over.

Yeah, don’t ask me how that is possible. By the way, the remote control car can be used as a CD holder or a tray.

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