Toy train doubles up as USB hub

Due to some unknown reasons, toy trains were absent in your childhood, you can now have it to sit right in front of your computer as well as connecting to your USB gadgets. This little toy train offers 4 USB ports, allow you to connect up to 4 USB devices.

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Horizon shrinks Hydrogen fuel-cell power system to power RC cars

Horizon Fuel Cell technologies has shrunk the size of Hydrogen fuel cell system, which can now be installed in R/C cars to power them. The miniature hydrogen fuel cell power system is a complete power system for high-end hobby cars. It also offers options with solar powered infrastructure that allows it to extract solar and wind power to turn water into hydrogen and store it into solid state cartridges.

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Mattel Stealth Rides, world’s first foldable and pocketable RC cars

Mattel has made these super tiny RC cars, called Stealth Rides, which come in the size of a USB flash drive only. And it can be slided inside a credit-card-sized remote control for ease of keeping it in the kids’ pocket to bring along anywhere they go.

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Juice-powered Tomy Ene pocket RC car

The Tomy Ene pocket RC car has been designed to run on juice or soda. This RC car would not be as troublesome as those battery-powered RC cars as it needs no battery replacement. When it’s run out of battery, you can simply refill the battery by using the juice or soda in your fridge.

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Nikko voice-controlled RC helicopter

Instead of moving joystick or pressing buttons on a remote control, the Nikko RC helicopter allows you to use your voice to control it. You just say “higher” to get the copter to go higher, and “lower” to get to go lower. These simple voice commands should be much more relaxing than having you to move the joystick or press the buttons.

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Tiny solar light-seeking robots

Here come some tiny robots that were handmade using recycled and surplus electronic components of your computers, cellphones and other gadgets. Their eyes are made of two LEDs and they carry solar panels that collect sun juice to power them up and provide them with the walking capability at a speed of 1.5 inches per second in bright sunlight.

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AR.Drone R/C helicopter controllable by iPhone or iPod touch

Parrot has released a new RC Toy called the AR.Drone, which is a quadricopter that can be controlled either by your iPhone or iPod Touch via WiFi connection. The AR.DRONE is basically an R/C helicopter that comes with four blades, but what makes it cool is you can use the iPhone or iPod Touch to control it.

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Joker Racer Linux Server for R/C cars

The Joker Racer R/C server is actually the Linux server OS and some electronics that have been shrunk into tiny size that can fit onto a R/C car. The mini Linux server allows a radio-controlled car to be remotely controlled by the user via a web browser or a client program (under development, will be available sometime next year) on smart phones.

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R/C Mosquito 3.0

The blood-sucking insect can now be in your hands, and you can control and get it to fly around within your territory. The RC Mosquito 3.0 shall be a more exciting beast to fly than any other R/C flying gadgets.

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USB Alien licks your work space with illuminated tongue

Some people may love aliens, although they are deemed as one of the ugliest beasts by most people. But if wish to have an alien to be your desktop pet, now your dream can be fulfilled with this USB Alien.

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