WowWee Lightstar

http://www.robotsrule.com/html/lightstar.php

See the WowWee Lightstar in action both in the light and in the dark. The Lightstar is WowWee's brand new flying blade just released at the CES 2009 electronics show. It's a miniature flying light show and looks like a tiny spinning galaxy when you turn the lights out and fly it around the room. So sit back, put on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" and watch the Lightstar do its thing!

Link to downloadable MP3 for the song, "Sadly, Swiftly, Softly":

http://www.raventears.com/html/sadly__swiftly__softly.php

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wowwee
• lightstar
• mark
• tilden
• robosapien
• flytech
• fly
• flying
• ufo
• fun
• gadgets
• ces
• 2009

[backpackingnerd]

Unless I'm seriously mistaken, that's not Dark Side Of The Moon playing. Does anyone know what song is playing?

[roschler]

No it's not. I wouldn't use that song even though I love it, because I doubt I could get permission to do so. The song you hear is something I wrote. I only used "Dark Side of The Moon" in my review as a suggestion to other people to play while playing with Lightstar (or other moody music).

[acea1]

you got to put that song up !!! the guitar is amazing !! can i have that piece of music !! :D

[roschler]

Check the video notes, I just added a link to the song and thanks. (This may be a duplicate comment but I can't see the first reply I made when I refresh the page).

[kittenclaws]

I assume it uses a counter spinning weight to over come the lift surfaces inertia?

[roschler]

There's only the styrofoam wings and a small propeller mounted motor on a stiff wire that passes through the unit.

[walk1904]

Cool toy. Only one big problem. The propeller is not protected so as soon as it bumps into something...wham the propeller is cut in half. Ours lasted less than an hour. Seems they could have realized this in product testing but I digress.

[robodude360]

ahhh UFO lol

[achemachew]

I broke the wing before, and super glued it back, and it works still!

[johnnyjlg]

I just got one yesterday! the wing broke

[maddogmaddox]

I just gave it as a present to my son and we allready broke one of the wings in the first flight (wich is not hard seeing it's made of styrofoam) and now I glued it hoping it 'll hold. And apparently they noticed that the tailrotorblade breaks really frequently so they put a spare one in the box. They only thing I'm trying to find out now is how to steer it if that is at all possible ...

[UnrealSFX]

This thing would be awesome if it could be steered horizontally. Wowwee must invent a better version of the X-UFO by Silverlit.

[Trampfreaks]

looks like the bladestar

[Badoe713]

it would be pretty tricky turning this into a spy bot wouldnt it

[boardman18]

my sister broke mine like 1 minute ago)=