the same kinda thing happened with my cat and a trumpet... i left it in the house and the cat was all over it... a while later i was playing it and she was watching...

It was hilarious to watch her slowly come up to it, hover a paw over it, tap it then run away!

Wow, that was hilarious

I got one of these at my local Radioshack. It's a lot of fun, but requires more room to fly around than I'm betting the average Gizmodo reader's college dorm / tiny apartment / mom's basement has.

awe someone else loves ikea jus like me :P

hahahaha, very nice.

Glue a catnip mouse to it?

@Brad: I'll take that bet. You may be living in your mom's basement but many of us actually own real full sized houses.

56% of us are college grads, 60% of us earn over 50K, and 27% of us are actually over 35 years old!

http://gawker.com/advertising/demographics/

i have the same cat now i don't have to traumatize mine (he's 17 anyway lol)

my cat does the same thing with the vacuum. it tries to kick its ass by boxing it to death after it is turned off.

Holy crap! This is apropos of nothing, but your cat looks EXACTLY like mine. I mean, I've seen some orange tabbys that look similar, but we're talking long-lost twin territory here. Scary.

My cat Rupert is scared of balloons and the guitar, but nothing else.

@nocar
Yikes! No need to be hostile towards Brad!

These things look pretty cool.
Maybe I'll pick one up this week. I could see it fun to take to the park.
It could be one of those things you only use three times than get sick of.

Classic!

that cat looks angry in the picture. i do not trust angry pets.

I'll have to try this out with the Mosquito and my cat.

For now, it's the Sizzler Race Set that the cat cannot get enough of.

can I put my R/C aircraft micro-turbine on there?

lol Uberfly

BTW, cats PWN dogs

and RE: those advertising stats:

only 30 million people (of 300m) in the US make over $75k a year, so i find it a bit hard to believe that 20ish+% of the readership of every gawker media product makes over $100k a year. a few of those people might be fibbing just a bit.

oh, whoops that's household income. well, of 100m households in the US, only 10m make over $110k combined. median household income is $43k.

still, really hard to believe the readership is that affluent.

My cat reacts similarly to my Robosapien. I kind of assumed she'd want to play with it and think it was another animal, but she definitely isn't fooled and is very suspicious of it. Doesn't seem like the way she'd react to something alive either.

My greyhound had the opposite reaction. She could have cared less about the dragonfly when I first put it on the coffee table. But as soon as I hit the throttle stick, she jumped on her feet and tried to pounce on it. Thankfully it crashed at my wife's feet and she was able to swoop it up before the dog got it.

This thing is definitely not an indoor flier, though. All you can do is turn it side to side - up/down and forward motion seems to be nothing more than a steep climb followed by a stall. If the dragonfly was high enough when it stalled, it'll recover from the stall and flutter up to an altitude of about 10 feet before repeating the process. I'm sure that if I finessed the throttle a bit more instead of just jamming it to full power for the entire flight I might get a little more controlled flight, but it's been too windy last few days to get any practice in. All in all, though, amongst the best $50 I've spent in a long time.

"oh, whoops that's household income. well, of 100m households in the US, only 10m make over $110k combined. median household income is $43k.

still, really hard to believe the readership is that affluent. "

chill bro, all statistics are BS anyway. except that one. HAHA.

:(

Cats tend to have a solid "flying predator" instinct for obvious reasons, similar to the often hilarious "OMG a snake!" instinct often triggered by perfectly innocent belts. I wonder if that's the deal. Did she actually see it fly?

chill bro, all statistics are BS anyway.

39% of the people know that!

My cat acts similarly. He also greets any guests that i have at the door to the bathroom. I hear it so often:" Uh, dude, your cat wants to kill me"

That's a good boy.

My cat will watch me fly those tiny RC Hellicopters. She want attack them but she'll watch it fly around.

"still, really hard to believe the readership is that affluent. "

Really? As you read a review of a remote control toy dragonfly, you find it hard to believe that the site is read mostly by people with disposable income?

Here's some more geek science - because the red fur gene is recessive in cats and must be passed on by both parents, and because of some other genetic curiosities, 90% of all red cats are males. A female red tabby like Anya is rare.

Now maybe you should pay more respect to her and let her kill that infernal dragonfly. Respect the red kitty!

Our cats like to watch the Roomba...just watch

Nice clip (and an awesome cat). I would probably have a cat or two if i wasn't allergic and didn't have two big, kitty-racist doggies. (Don't let your large breed puppy get smacked in the face by a cat - it breeds contempt as the dog gets older and much larger)

I tried something similar with one of my dogs and a remote-controlled car - it ended differently. Let's just say I still haven't found all of the pieces yet (they weren't eaten, they just went flying everywhere). Good thing it was a cheap RC car!

@drewheyman: is it that hard to believe? i mean the people reading this blog are the gadget obsessed, and you gottta make money to buy all your lovely gadgets

or to put it another way, they make a lot of money and watch giz to find out what to spend it on =P

My cat stalks the vacuum cleaner... while it's on. He hasn't launched an attack yet. This is strongly in contrast to his behaviour towards my girlfriend, who he does stalk and attack. Nowadays he just has to look at her with his mouth open and ears back and she will shriek and run from the room. I'm betting he would make short work of the dragonfly. Feel free to send a test unit.

I have a 24-pound monster kitty named Tybalt (we're guessing part of his ancestry is Maine Coon Cat, but since both he and his mother were born wild, who knows for sure). He's solid, muscular, bigger than several kinds of pocket dogs, and looks like he could whup a Doberman.

He's the biggest wuss on the block. He has to sneak up on the water dish with extreme caution before he'll even take a drink. Heaven knows what that mean, nasty, vicious water dish ever did to him. If we got one of those dragonfly gizmos, Tybalt would probably hide under the bed for a week.

Not that it isn't tempting, though.

@EBone: Our first cat was a female "ginger" tabby. I've often wondered why we've never seen another one. Now I know!

Why are the reader stats hard to believe? It's not like the Gawker sites are aimed at NASCAR, knitting, and cheap beer.

Our cats are afraid of bubbles, especially the catnip-flavored bubbles that cost a lot more money than regular bubbles. Ungrateful!

Cats are a superstitious, cowardly lot...so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of technology, gray, terrible...
Yes, Father... I shall buy an RC dragonfly.