Possibly the best indoor flyer right now.  The dragonfly can be driven indoors,  I saw a salesperson flying one in the middle of a toystore last weekend quite well.  At one point though, it strayed a bit far & nearly collided with a shopper.  IR avoidance is definitely a plus.

In the Roboboa , this feature is always on - it's nearly impossible to drive it headon against a solid wall even under remote control.  Less solid stuff like grills give it problems though.

It's going to be interesting if you have the option to turn IR avoidance off/on at will with the Bladestar. 

The guy flying the Bladestar manages to crash it several times but near the end , there is an interesting description of the built-in sensors & the dogfight mode.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BKiMroDNv6c

Interesting words, but I haven't seen the implementation working in these videos.

He said the upper and lower sensors could be used to have the BladeStar hover between your two hands. That was just after the BladeStar rose up and smacked him in the hand just before falling the floor. Maybe he moved his hand down too quickly. Maybe the hover behavior wasn't enabled.

The bit about dog fight mode was interesting, too. I assumed that two BladeStars would be zooming at each other. The fact that some sort of IR focus attachement is added to the controller makes me wonder whether the users are "shooting" at the BladeStars from the remote.

He mentioned something about how a "hit" would cause the BladeStar to lose power momentarily, and that multiple "hits" would cause the BladeStar to land and power off. 

I would have preferred to see a remote control triggered "shot" from one BladeStar transmitter aimed at the other BladeStar. The entire BladeStar vehicle must be spinning wildly, so I suppose you would not be able to aim a "shot" from a BladeStar. The spinning transmitter would sweep the entire room with each pulse. 

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After seeing the video it looks a bit hairy fairy to me, I would have to see some more detailed video before i can comment on this product.

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Likewise iflyrc1012, I reckon they will still be fun to experiment with.

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