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Ever wanted to ride a paper plane?

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Two of the hottest tech developments of the last year have been merged together and we couldn’t be more excited! Imagine a drone with a camera… and then imagine hooking that to a VR headset! The PlaneVR does precisely that! To give you more of an adrenaline rush, the drone is simply a propeller module with a mounted camera (made by none other than drone-expert Parrot) that attaches to a paper aircraft, propelling it forward, while a camera on the front gives you a live stream of what it feels like to have wings and soar across the sky!

The paper-plane construction means that your drone will never get damaged, while it also allows the drone to continue flying in a random flight pattern, giving the VR headset wearer quite a roller-coaster ride! The PaperVR drone comes without controls, and has an in-built live video streaming service within. Connect your phone to the PlaneVR app and slip it into your VR headset and get ready for the most adventurous flight of your life!

Designer: PowerUp Toys

BUY IT HERE: $236.99 $280.00

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This Machine Gun Fires 120 Paper Airplanes Per Minute

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When I was a kid, I had to fold my own paper airplanes with my own two hands. You kids have it easy with your fancy paper plane folding machine guns. All you have to do is stick 200 sheets of A5 paper into the back of this weapon, and instead of firing bullets when you pull the trigger, it will unleash a barrage of up to 120 paper airplanes every minute.

Dieter Michael Krone has been improving his design ever since his first paper airplane folding machine showed up back in 2014. This is version 2.0. It was built from a combination of 3D-printed components and purchased parts. It is now called the PFM A5 v2.0.

Pretty awesome, but when everyone else forgets how to fold paper airplanes by hand, I’m gonna make a fortune with my long forgotten knowledge and start selling handmade, artisanal paper airplanes.

[via Red Ferret via Gizmodo]

The PowerUp 3.0 Gives You Flight Control over a Paper Plane

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I love paper planes. If you’re half as geeky as me you probably have gone through a significant amount of paper making the best plane that you can at some point. The best I ever did was a four-winged monstrosity made from two pieces of paper that could usually fly about 80 yards in a dead straight line if wind didn’t interfere. Yeah… I’m a huge nerd.

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How far could it have gone with thrust? I’ll never know, since I can’t remember how I made it, but if the PowerUp 3.0 had existed at the time I would certainly have owned it. It’s a $49.99 gizmo available at ThinkGeek that allows for 10 minutes of powered flight after a 20 minute charge. You can also control the little propeller via your smartphone; thrust ascension and descent are all controllable. Sadly, a mechanism for turning hasn’t been incorporated, but I still think this is pretty cool.

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