New R/C helicopters

I've been fighting the urge of buying a radiocontrolled helicopter for a month or two, and last week I had to succumb. I picked up a small Superfly 2.0 chopper at a local store, and have been playing with it a lot since then.

Today my boss and I went to a local hobby-store in Drammen, and ended up leaving with a Twister Bell 47 chopper each! The Bell is about 3 times as big as the Superfly, and 6 times as expensive.

The Superfly is extremely simple to fly, and can take quite a beating. It's been sent head-first into walls and furniter time and time again, but minimal damage. I even (crash)landed into a 500W lamp. Two channel controllersticks - dead easy.

I've been hovering the Bell around the livingroom this evening, and this helicopter is in another league. There are way more axis to control, and it takes some getting used to. I've had two very minor crashes, and both have resulted in broken rotorblades. Four channel controllersticks - hard, but fun!

Wee to the Wii

Julie (the better part of this relationship) came home with a surprise the other day! Guess what!?

That's right, a Nintendo Wii. Cool!

We've been playing it for a few evenings now, and its quite a laugh. The hand held gyro-based shake-twist-point-click-twirl-control system is just amazing. Really gets you sweating.

The game Rayman Raving Rabbids, which is the other game besides the obligatory Wii Sports, is a nonsense-game where you hurl cows, shoot toilet plungers at rabbits, ride in warthog races or even pull out worms from teeth. The objective is usually to do as much damage to the stark raving mad rabbits as possible.