Each tank can be controlled within a radius of 25-feet using a USB radio transmitter and the included PC software. Throw in the 12-foot range of the foam dart warheads and anything within 37-feet of your computer is a potential target. In fact, as many as four of these tanks can be controlled from a single PC interface, so you could conceivably create your own tank battalion to take out several targets at once—or lay down some serious firepower on a single high-value target. [RED5 via Toyology via OhGizmo]

OK, so strike that previous thought.

After reading over the specs for this thing I'm redacting my previous criticism. The $18 "Electric Paper Plane Launcher," as the chaps who invented it at Middlesex University call it, can fling folded paper up to 30 mph at your intended target. You see, once we introduce physical harm and/or death by pierced eyeball into the equation, all "you're lazy" critiques are immediately thrown out the window. Fire away! [Urban Outfitters via Red Ferret Journal]