This mini RC boat can travel where larger boats can't—delivering a payload of feed to attract fish and/or deliver a bated hook with a floater up to 950 feet away. It also features an LED light under the stern to attract fish and a sonar fish finder that will send data to the backlit LCD on your remote control. However, if you want to spend more time getting drunk in the boat and less time working for your fish, keep in mind that this RC boat won't come cheap. It will set you back around $726. [Pro Idee via OhGizmo]

This thing is an R/C truck that can launch a freakin' autopilot helicopter. Can you even wrap your head around that phenomenon? It'd be like if your home had some mechanical port that opened with an remote, unleashing or storing your car (or maybe even two cars!) at will.

But alas, it's made for stupid kids. And those stupid kids probably don't even have the $100 to buy the Heli Mission SWAT Truck this July because they don't have stupid jobs. [Go! Radio Control via Toyology via OhGizmo!]

Using the controller you can make the robot "roller dash" and fire its assault rifle. If you have two, you and a buddy can wage war by firing infrared shots from the guns. The controller will respond with sounds and vibration when your mech is hit. However, building up an army of these mechs isn't going to come cheap. Each one will set you back $248. [Japan Trend Shop via 7Gadgets via DVICE]

[Hacked Gadgets via Make via DVICE]

The car is also damn near indestructible with a body made out of lexan polycarbonate resin thermoplastic on a polyethylene foam base. The resin was used by NASA for the visors on the helmets of Apollo astronauts and it is the same stuff that is currently used in modern day race cars. If the video above is any indicator, you are going to need every inch of that material to protect your $250 investment. The Axon will be available starting in September. [Axon via Techpin via DVICE]

The palm-sized Dragonfly plugs directly into the remote for charging, its bulbous eyes glowing as the juice is applied. The wee flying machine, created by Robosapien manufacturer Wow Wee, just received FCC approval, but no pricing or availability information was forthcoming. Too bad; it's probably too late for Christmas. – Charlie White

Wow Wee Readying Flying Toy Bug [Gearlog, via ubergizmo]

The real Spirit of St. Louis that Charles Lindbergh used to scoot across the Atlantic in 1927 may be hanging in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, but that's no reason not to covet the 80th anniversary (yeah, they're on the ball here) radio-controlled model from Toys "R" Us-Japan.

Admittedly, it's more than a little nerdy to still hanker after RC planes, but you can't go far wrong for just ¥6,999 (US$59) and a pack of eight AAs for the controller. Oh, and if you're thinking of emulating Lindbergh's epic 33-hour flight, forget it — two hours of charging yields just two minutes of flight time. – Jonny Hiratsuka

Spirit of St. Louis [Game Watch]

Video [Google Video]

200MPH Radio-Controlled Jet [TechEBlog]

Its tail is designed to spin around and turn it right side up after your cat has mauled it beyond recognition. Better yet, try it out on that squeamish babe in the next cubicle. It's $18.99. – Charlie White

Product Page [Hobbylinc, via Oh Gizmo]

The Tyco R/C N.S.E.C.T. (pictured above) is the sequel to last year's toy of the year. Imagine having a remote-controlled insect the size of an Xbox walking around your house. The front mandibles can actually grip items, be they enemy robots or beer cans, for the older boys in the audience. It shoots foam darts out of its body, leading to massive casualties. Expect videos of N.S.E.C.T. battles to become commonplace on the Interweb. $99.99, this July.

The Tyco R/C Airblade looks like something out of Apocalypse Now (or, for the learned, Heart of Darkness). It's a three-wheeled hovercraft that actually floats just above the (flat) surface, zipping to and fro quite nicely. What's more, plop this baby in the water and watch as it tears up the joint. Recommended for kids 8+, including drunken college students. $79.99, this July.

Mattel's also got a line of Superman toys with your child's name on it. Pictured here is the Superman Returns Inflato-Suit, which you put on like a t-shirt. Activate the battery-operated fan and BAM—instant muscles, no tiring trips to the gym needed. Useful in fending off bullies, girls. $21.99, available now. There's also an action figure that does action figure stuff: sound effects, "action" poses, etc. $24.99, available now.

Continuing with the movie tie-ins, Cars represents yet another Disney + Pixar license to make money, which Mattel also has covered. The most impressive of which is the Cars Fast Talkin' Lightning McQueen Vehicle. On the underside of the car's body is a series of buttons that you use to program the car's movements. Press forward, left, backward, right, forward and it'll move thusly. Just don't put it on a ledge or anything, or it might fall. Not that that happened during the demo or anything. $34.99, available now.

Lastly, Mattel has a incredible number of Barbie and Barbie-ish girls toys on the way. Since I would wager that many of the readers here aren't too interested in Barbie (or at least shouldn't be), I'll keep this somewhat brief. There was one impressive item, the Barbie Let's Dance doll ($54.99, this September), which uses RFID tags embedded inside a wrist band to mimic a child's dance moves. Raise arm up, Barbie's arm goes up; spin around, Barbie spins around. Did John Biggs put on a dress and spin around during the demonstration? Hmm, to tell or not to tell. – Nicholas Deleon

Mattel

Next time you go to get your gall bladder removed, your surgeon may have a tiny helper. No, it's not a bile-covered gnome. It's a robot!

Instead of the older laparoscopic cameras that are used for this and other smaller surgeries, new radio-controlled mini-robots are now being tested on animals (that pig didn't need his prostate, anyhow). One robot has a camera, while another comes with a needle that can extract tissue for biopsies. And yet another can move around the abdominal cavity, with a spiral pattern on its wheels to easily maneuver over organ surfaces. Yum yum. These robots would pass right through small incisions on the body and other robots are being developed to help in emergency surgery as well.

Dextrous mini-robots to aid ops [BBC]