Helicopters, cars, inflatable Disney characters...we've got 'em all, and they're all on sale!

The school holidays are just around the corner, and parents all over Britain are wondering how on Earth they're going to keep their kids occupied for six whole weeks.

Well, we at Gadget Inspector have the answer, and the answer is remoted-controlled! We're having a colossal sale on our entire Remote Control department - all RC helicopters, RC cars, and RC toys are now 25% OFF (or better!)

This means that your summer is well and truly sorted - head over to our RC Toys department now and see the great deals that we're offering!

They've already conquered the skies...now they're preparing to conquer your hunger!

The video above was made by DoDo, a Russian pizza company who will soon be offering delivery by remote-controlled drone. It's a novel idea - pizza companies could save a fortune on the delivery drivers that they no longer need to employ, and it would be pretty cool to receive a pizza from an RC helicopter that's just landed in your street.

However, we envision a couple of problems with the idea of pizza drones:

• Carrying a pizza around is like painting a great big bullseye on your back, and once people learn to recognise these pizza, they'll surely stop at nothing to bring them down and steal their precious cargo. Rocks will be thrown, BB pellets will be fired, and thousands of customers will go hungry because their pizza took a dangerous route through a nearby housing estate.


• We don't know about you, but we often order pizza simply because it's cold and wet outside and we can't be bothered walking to the shops. These drones will do fine on sunny days, but how will they fare when the wind's a-blowin' and the rain's a-rainin'? Not well, we'd wager.
  
  
• The drone in that video is only carrying one pizza - surely that tiny little gadget won't be able to handle our Family Feast for 4? Two large pizzas, wedges, chicken strips, a litre bottle of Coke...to paraphrase that chap from Jaws, "You're going to need a bigger helicopter thingy."
  
  
• How on Earth does the pilot/pizza guy navigate an RC drone all the way to his customer's house? Okay, you could perhaps use some kind of camera, but even if we assume that you can see where you're going, RC helicopters can only fly so far from their pilot. If your pizza parlour is two miles from the home of your hungry customer, the drone's RC range probably won't be enough to get the pizza to their door.
  
  
• Most pizza delivery guys use those insulated satchel things to keep the pizzas warm. Not only will your drone pizza be uninsulated and out in the open, it will be whizzing through the air at quite a clip - surely it will get cold before it finds its way to your mouth?

So, yeah, the pizza drone thing is a cool idea, but there are certainly still some kinks to be worked out. You'll probably still be opening the door to deliverymen for a year or two yet!

Want a drone of your own? It doesn't deliver pizza (sadly), but Gadget Inspector's nifty Micro Drone 2.0 is still a pretty awesome toy. Get yours now!

It's one of Pixar's most popular franchises - only Toy Story comes close in terms of the merchandise it spawned - but how much do you really know about Pixar's Cars (and its sequel, Cars 2)? With a third movie now in the pipeline, here are five cool facts about Lightning McQueen and his anthropomorphic automobile allies:

• Several Cars characters (including Sally and, in Cars 2, Giuseppe) are named after characters from Isaac Asimov's Sally, a short story about - guess what? - sentient cars. Asimov, of course, is best known for writing I, Robot and coming up with The Three Laws of Robotics.

• Luigi, the Italian car who runs the tyre shop, has the following number plate: 445-108. These are the exact co-ordinates for Ferrari's factory in Modena (Luigi states in the first film that he is a big Ferrari fan).

• Doc Hudson was voiced by Paul Newman in one of his very last roles. In addition to his considerable acting talents and his non-profit salad dressings, Newman was a keen motorsport enthusiast and, at one point, a professional racer himself. Clearly, he was the perfect choice for the role!

• A British writer named Jake Mandeville-Anthony tried to sue Disney, claiming that they stole his idea for Cars. According to Mandeville-Anthony, he had written a screenplay called Cars in the late eighties and sent it to numerous companies (including Disney), complete with character sketches and plans for the merchandise. The lawsuit was dismissed after a judge decided that the two works didn't really bear any relation to one another.

It's amazing to read about the chaos that remote control helicopters can cause. We're pretty keen RC pilots here at Gadget Inspector, but nobody here in the office has ever run into this sort of trouble:

RC Helicopter Takes Down Gigantic RC Plane

The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Watch in awe as a majestic 80-inch Mitsubishi fighter plane is sent crashing to the ground by a relatively tiny RC chopper:

 Video no longer exists - sorry! :(

It's like David and Goliath, except in the air.

Dutch UFO Watchers Fooled by RC Drone

This forum post tells the rather amusing (but also slightly sad) story of a UFO sighting organisation in the Netherlands who recorded several false sightings because someone was out flying their quadrocopter after hours. Lesson learned, we suppose?

RC Helicopter Smuggles Tobacco Into a Prison

 We're not quite sure of the law here in Britain, but in Georgia, USA, you're not allowed tobacco in prison. It's contraband. Still, that didn't stop some bright sparks from flying an RC helicopter over the prison wall in an attempt to give the prisoners on the other side their nicotine fix. Incidentally, the four people responsible were apprehended, and they may face up to 20 years in prison for smuggling contraband goods. Somewhere, the Gods of Irony are chuckling to themselves.

If you are looking for some awesome remote control helicopters, Gadget Inspector is more than equipped to deal with your query! Here are a few of our favourites - all of which make for excellent Christmas presents. Boys like their toys, and these ones come with some epic features:

This Bladez Transporter helicopter comes with bright lights which can be controlled by the user! Not only that, but this chopper also comes with an electronic winch which can pick and transport up to 10grams of weight - mightily impressive.

The clue is in the name with this Bladez masterpiece - water blaster! Not only is this a brilliant little flying machine, but it also comes equipped with a water gun you can control using the remote! Airbourne water-fights anyone?

If you like bubbles, you're going to love this cheeky chopper! Bladez make high-quality remote control machines, and with this one they have even added a bubble gun - as if it needed another cool feature!

Great things come in small packages in this case - the RC Micro Copter! You'd be amazed at just how agile this thing is, and it isn't much bigger than a 50 pence piece! You will be keeping up with wasps with this stunning machine.

All of our helicopters are cool, but this one may just take the biscuit. Along with being a competent, air-worthy machine, this chopper also comes with a built in camera - just imagine the remote-controlled air surveillance opportunities...