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Using Your Cellphone To Control RC Cars

Posted by Hemos on from the have-to-break-off-this-call-to-drive-my-car dept.

rocannon writes "Cellular-news reports that NEC has announced a technical cooperation with the Japanese toy manufacturer, Konami to enable its range of MICROiR toys cars to be controlled from the DoCoMo N504iS handset or the J-N51 handset sold by J-Phone. More details on Cellular News."

3 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bluetooth Anyone? by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's fine if you never want to drive it more than one meter in any direction.

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  2. Re:What does it cost? by dtldl · · Score: 2, Informative

    That honestly could have been modded funny. The cars are IR - infra red controlled and a lot of modern phones have IR ports on them, so just a litle program on the phone to send the right signals and presto phone controlled cars.

  3. Re:I dont know whats worse by m0RpHeus · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm still waiting for a phone that:

    1. Uses a properly designed antenna.
    2. Still works after it's dropped.
    3. Has covered buttons so that I don't accidentally dial when I sit down.
    4. Has decent battery life.

    Well, if what you need is a GSM phone, I suggest you get one of those m-series of Siemens (m45, m35, etc). Shock proof (my friends play catch with it), antenna is hidden but still has strong signal, and decent battery life. As for the cover, while it doesn't have a cover, it does have auto key-lock. It locks the keys after not using it within 30 seconds. Not enabled by default. Anyway, most new GSM phones that come out these days have the auto-keylock feature anyway. Me, I'm still using my old Ericsson R320.

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