Tag: Remote control
Manfrotto intros professional grade tripods and remote control units for serious videographers
Here’s some gear that’s definitely targeted at serious videographers and photographers, given the price tag and niche status of the products.
First up at £19.95 (not too bad, you might think) is the Manfrotto 585 LNC Modosteady remote control. Thing is, it’s designed to be mounted on top of a Manfrotto Modosteady, a beast of a contraption that’s designed to steady attached video cameras the “hardware way” (forget those namby-pamby internal image stabilisers).
Should you be itching to get hold of such a device for your Sony or Canon camcorder, you’ll be pleased to know it’ll be available next month…
New in-ear headphones make Apple sound better
Among all of the moderately large announcements made by his Holiness the Jobs at the Apple music conference, one that slipped by relatively unnoticed was the release of the new Apple headphones which, for a change, are not rubbish…
Vision tracking remote control goggles
Harbour secret dreams of growing up to be a racing car driver? Me too! Sadly that particular dream doesn’t seem in the offing, but I’ll get as close to the experience as I can with this VTS (vision tracking system) enabled remote control car.
Coolest toy ever!: RC amphibious beer-totin', gun shootin' tank
The incredible awesomeness of this toy has left me speechless. Not only can it tote beer around, its hardy wheels flip up transformer-like when it takes a dive (no room for your beer then though).
Scientists working on 1.5-metre long climbing robotic snake
Forget snakes on a plane, for soon there could be snakes in your drains – robotic snakes, that is, which can climb vertical pipes, cleaning them or looking for leaks.
Norwegian scientists are working on a one-and-a-half metre long aluminium-clad robot is constructed with multiple joints, plastic wheels, and a camera, and is programmed with algorithms that tell it how to navigate pipework, and what tasks to carry out while in there…
Channel Changer Ray Gun – how can you resist?
Yes, yes, and yes again. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love the idea of shooting Big Brother off the screen with the Channel Changer Ray Gun? Anyone? No, just looking towards the back? No? Didn’t think so.
Not only do you get to feel properly lazy and blissfully childish with this awesome toy but it also happens to be the ultimate in Barbarella style space kit…
Soon, iPhone and PS3 will be able to control one another
In a bizarre concoction, it turns out that the iPhone and the PlayStation 3 may soon be able to converse with and control one another, thanks to a new application from Netblender.
At its most basic level, the iPhone will be able to remote control Blu-ray disc playback on the PS3, but Denny Breitenfeld, Netblender’s CTO, says that it’s much more than that…
Win a One For All Zapper remote control from Universal Electronics
It’s competition day here at Tech Digest, with this week’s give-away being the One For All Zapper remote control.
They’re little remote controls for your TV which let you do your usual thang when watching telly – switching channels, turning on and off, muting and adjusting the volume. As the name suggests, they’re compatible with most TVs.
We have three to give away, so look under the jump for more details….
Run your car on water… well your remote-control one anyway!
Blimey, we high oil prices and petrol that costs a fortune in Britain, could Corgi have come up with the answer to fuel shortages of the future.
This remote-control car – the nicely-named H2Go – is developed in partnership with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies and is the world’s first and only hydrogen-fueled RC car…
CES 2008: Da Vinci inspired remote control miniatures
Airborne Remote Controlled toys are great fun, right up until you take someone’s eye out with your aerial acrobatics. But as technology gets smaller and smaller, so does the size of remote control gizmos and Interactive Toy Concepts has two diminutive offerings that will be great for annoying friends, relatives and pets alike without risking permanent injury. Although that might take the fun out of it I suppose.
The first is the Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Ornithopter based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous designs. It has a wingspan of less than 5” and has an on-board rechargeable lithium polymer battery, which allows for 7 miuntes of flying time from a 5 minute charge.
