You’ve seen just about everything there is to see when it comes to RC cars, right? What about one that transforms instantly before your eyes to a dancing robot that has a pretty strong resemblance to one Optimus Prime? This little guy was made by Kenji Ishida, and features 22 servos that allow the robot to function, it also makes a reasonably decent RC car, as well. This is the fourth version of the robot, so far, and the creator is expecting to continue to expand his efforts to make an even better transformer.

This is pretty cool, though honestly it transforms a little slower than the ones in Transformers, but hey, it’s still extraordinarily impressive, to say the least. It’s amazing to see walking robots like this becoming more and more common. Makes you wonder just how much out of Sci-Fi movies and TV shows are really going to happen in the next few decades.

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Remote control cars are a lot of fun, but it’s not as fun being restricted solely to the horizontal plane. It’s also not as fun being restricted to conventional controls. Addressing both of these is the unique iW500 R/C car that gets controlled by any iOS device. And it drives up the wall. Literally.

The car itself doesn’t look terribly interesting, but it can actually attach itself to a vertical surface like your wall, the side of a building, or wherever else your imagination may lead you. It stays stuck via a sealed vacuum. This vacuum is so powerful that the car can even drive upside-down on your ceiling.

The controls are done via your iPhone or whatever other iOS device you have. Simply connect the transmitter (which uses the standard iDevice dock connector) and steer using the accelerometer. There are touchscreen controls too, if you prefer, via the dedicated iSpace app. The $59.99 toy will be joined by other iRC iVehicles, including helicopters and monster trucks.

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What we have here are several hundred wine bottles strategically filled to play a perfect tune of Mario Kart while an RC car with a spring hammer drives by tapping them. I wonder how long this took to setup, regardless, it kicks ass.

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Anyone who has ever played with a remote-control car has dreamed of this moment. Forget about those tiny 1/18 scale models. What if you could drive a real deal BMW down the road using nothing but your smartphone? That’s the dream that has been realized by a couple of keeners.

An Jiaxuan teamed up with one of his buddies to outfit a brand new BMW (yes, the real car) with the ability to be remotely controlled using a specially designed app for the Nokia C7 smartphone. Remember that the C7 uses the same Symbian^3 platform as the Nokia N8, so you could likely do the same thing with that device too. You know, if you had the same kind of hackery skills as An Jiaxuan.

What’s crazy is that they were able to achieve this feat in just 20 days of programming and testing. They started out with trying to remotely control a little toy, then an air conditioner, then the room lights, then a DSLR camera, and ultimately the full-sized BMW.

Better still, they were able to confuse the heck out of a traffic cop trying to write the “driver” of the red BMW a ticket… only to see that there was no one in the driver’s seat at all.

[My Nokia Blog via Symbian World]

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