Your first flight will be undeniably cool, as you use your phone or tablet to wirelessly send the drone hovering over your neighbour's fence, where the built-in video camera beams back the boring reality that their backyard features nothing more than lawn and shrubs rather than the girls having pillow fights you'd always fantasised about. Or maybe that's just us. You'll do a few flips, fly up, down, left and right, and then the battery will die after just twelve minutes. We highly recommend buying a couple of extra batteries if you do get this gadget, as it's not worth driving down to your local park for twelve minutes of fun.
The drone prefers wide open spaces, as the built-in sensors will get confused in the clutter of a backyard. Our review sample freaked out whenever it got close to shrubs, trees or fences, and eventually tangled up in some branches. This caused the engine to go into emergency shut-down mode, sending it plummeting two metres to the brick paving below, and snapping off one of the landing feet.
There's no denying how cool this is as a gadget. The ease of flight - while it's in open areas at least - makes it a gentle introduction to RC aircraft. Its a little too simple though, and once the initial fun wears off lacks the depth of a serious RC chopper or plane.
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