DOOLEY Observed: Remember Paper Airplanes? Now You Can Fly Them Via Remote Control

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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Remember Paper Airplanes? Now You Can Fly Them Via Remote Control

There’s something satisfying about folding a piece of paper and throwing it at someone’s head. Now, a new gizmo ensures that you’ll never miss your friend’s noggin again.

Enter PowerUp 3.0, a smartphone-controlled paper plane that propels whatever creation you attach it to through the air at eight yards a second. The long, thin attachment clips onto your paper plane as if it were its spine, shooting it through the air with a rubber rudder that’s powered by a lithium battery. All the while, a chip that’s installed at the nose of this contraption controls the flying object’s movement via an iPhone app.

Yes — it’s a remote-controlled paper plane.

The PowerUp 3.0 takes about 15 minutes to charge and lasts about 10 minutes in the air (which I imagine must feel very short, considering how fun it seems to fly one). You can also buy cutesy sheets of paper if you want to zip around as a spaceship or Leonardo da Vinci invention.