How could we forget - the best remote controlled gizmos ever.

View the video, from the excellent Top Gear, after the link.

This is not a cheapo toy but a full remote controlled aircraft under 4 grams.

Its slight resemblance to the Mars rovers is pretty ironic, seeing as this machine is steam powered.

$2500 for a remote controlled image stabilized helicopter. We want one.

A roach which has been surgically implanted with a micro-robotic backpack that allows researchers to control its movements. Seemingly the instructions were - head to New York, head directly for New York.

These things cost $17K but are the real deal. They are what was used to film parts of New Orleans after Katrina.

Imagine the surprise if you showed up in the park, to an RC enthusiast’s gathering, with this monster, and took out all the other models.

Considering there is now a Roomba styled robot lawnmower, this may seem out-dated. However, this is a full sized lawnmower.

Note how the text for the yodeling man pre-dates the expression ‘remote controlled’.

Bill Lauver’s remote controlled snowplow is a a 4-horsepower electric golf cart that runs on six golf cart batteries and uses a hydraulic plow attachment.

Built by Raffaello D’Andrea, this chair falls apart and can either put itself back together automatically, or by remote control. Presumably the latter is quicker.

$2000 buys you a movie prop style gadget and the ability to out do whatever your neighbors have planned for halloween.

Included here for amusement purposes, this clipping from Modern Mechanic displays a foot controlled mechanism for use in bank robberies. Not quite what we would call remote control, these days. It is not to sound the alarm, like in the movies, but to lock the cash drawer. Only for the brave.

JP Aerospace built this giant remote controlled blimp to test the idea of a near space battlefield communication, from 100,000 feet up.

Claimed to be the world’s first remote controlled shoe. (As if anyone else would have already bothered to remotely control something so un-remote as your own two legs). Co-designed by NikeLab and UGO, this limited edition Vapor TD was being offered as a competition prize.

For the duration of May, 2007, Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal was to stay in the FlatFile Galleries in Chicago. The public could watch him 24 hours a day over a live webcam and shoot him with a remote controlled paintball gun.

“Bilal’s self imposed confinement is designed to raise awareness about the life of the Iraqi people and the home confinement they face due to the both the violent and the virtual war they face on a daily basis.”

I have never understood why golf is the only sport that seems to have people conspire to do the least exercise possible. The question should be: why do I need a golf caddie? Not, how can I replace my caddie with a very sophisticated device.