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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[amwesome.. kinda loud though....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sudi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 9:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[very cool. as an aeronautical engineer though, it's not really impressive. proper scientists have studied how dragonflies fly, and this craft is a pretty crude representation of their flight. this craft has a very wild phugoid, and is unable to hover. in real life, dragonflies' wings move like oars of a boat, they change incidence relative to the flow, and this allows them to hover and even fly backwards. this toy does not really present any new technology. the idea of flapping wildly has been around since before the wright brothers. still, i'd get one :D]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tchiseen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 20th 2006 9:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Genius. You can't beat flying toys... although it makes a funky noise - unless that's just part of the background music? Weird.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[justdave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 8:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is awesome... 15 minutes is pretty respectable, too, battery powered copters get the same. I want a hummingbird though, more stable in the air...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nikster]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 9:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[that thing is sweet, any clue on price?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 9:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[I dunno about this one... Innovative for sure, but I couldn't help but be irritated by the way the thing kept diving and climbing, diving and climbing, diving and climbing... Unless that was pilot inexperience or a related problem, I was kinda hoping to see some smoother flight.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[-Tj-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 9:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Probably going to be expensive, and seems to need a lot of room.<br><br>I'll stick to the $40 Picco Z.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MosquitoControl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 9:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks like a toy ornithopter fit to be place under Muad Dib's Christmas tree! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rxse7en]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 10:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[ I liked the Dune comment there. It does remind me of Ornithopters.<br><br>hehhehehe...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 1:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you got a few of these in black done up to look like real bugs before word really gets out that these things exist you would scare the crap out of people if you flew a couple into a room. It would look just like a real giant bug.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 10:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pretty cool toy. If a normal company can design this, imagine what the military can do.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phantom1219]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2006 11:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was hoping it would be able to hover still in the air; maybe that's what we can expect from their next generation bug-toy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Lai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 12:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[pretty damn sweet, but as with every other flying toy the main thing that keeps me from ever buying any of them is the bat life is just extremely way too low.  15min, come on.  As soon as i can get at least 1 full hour of play with any of these flying toys, thats when ill buy one.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[liquid]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 2:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[check out the "other" video at <a href="http://www.robotsrule.com/html/flytech-dragonfly.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.robotsrule.com/html/flytech-dragonfly.php</a><br><br>Pretty coool :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mjeelani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 2:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have only one question: How much? :-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[umijin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 6:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Uhm, so what exactly makes this thing "robotic"? I mean come on, I had the same thing in the shape of a flying fish 15 years ago. Powered by the almighty rubberband and not remote controlled. Great thing to hassle people in the dunes with anyway. So this is the same, but with a motor. Yawn. Give me back that flying fish any day. It had a nice element of unpredictability to it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Beaver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 7:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Around a year ago I saw a demonstration at the faculty of aerospace engineering at the university of TU Delft in the Netherlands of a very similar flying robot. It was also able to fly for around 15 minutes and is capable to carry a small camera.<br>Bellow you can see the link of the video which I made with a bad quality digital camera.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLbDZT7LNo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLbDZT7LNo</a><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0TmK3P228" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0TmK3P228</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mape]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 10:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[p.s. i guess its not that small. Btw the jerky way it moves is ugly and creeps me out a bit along with the sound. I can just imagine 10 billion of them each mounted with poison dart shooters taking over the world lol. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lachlan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 22nd 2006 10:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[Add Airsoft payload and we have a new toy I can really dig.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jessew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2006 2:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[How is this a robot. It's just remote controlled wings. I expect a robot to interact with it's surrondings.<br>Not impressed]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[plh2034]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 12th 2007 4:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly in action]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/wowwees--flytech-dragonfly-in-action/</guid><description><![CDATA[best 50 bucks I'll ever spend!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cjpmedic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 9th 2007 2:35AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
