Hasta La Gadget!

Thank you, PowerUp. Apparently the last time we had the opportunity to write about paper airplanes was back in 2011, when a Seattle doctor built a tiny one using a da Vinci surgical robot. This time out, it’s a Kickstarter project that brings smartphone control to the notoriously staid word of paper airplanes. The gadget’s setup is pretty simple, all said. At the front is a Bluetooth module and battery, while the back contains the propeller and rudder. Build a paper airplane, attach the PowerUp up and boom, you’ve got RC aircraft you can control with your smartphone. Creator Shai Goitein has taken the project to Kickstarter in an attempt to score $50,000 in funding. A pledge of $30 will get one of these little fliers in your hands, come May of next year. That’s plenty of time to practice your folding skills.

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The trick to make a paper airplane fly forever isn’t in the quality of the paper or the intricacy of the folding, it’s in using an electric stove to keep the paper airplane afloat in constant motion. Just watch the video above, the paper airplane keeps going in circles and circles and circles over the stove. Of course you may end up accidentally burning something but imagine the awesome points your childhood self would give your current day self. [ViralVideoLab]

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