ZFlyer Hand Command

Here’s yet another highly innovative new toy from Thumbs Up – the ZFlyer Hand Command!

 This flying astronaut puts RC control right into your hands with an innovative and unique control system

Hovering just above the ground in normal flight, when you place your hand underneath him, he’ll follow your lead so you can control his flight with hand gestures. It’s almost like that game where you have to keep a soccer ball from touching the floor – except Hand Command won’t hit the ground, he’ll stop just short of it.

Playing with a Hand Command is almost like taking your own pet astronaut out for a walk! Why not make up games involving passing him between two people? You can ‘throw’ him a short distance before he goes back to level flight. Featuring auto-stabilising rotor technology, Hand Command is simple to fly and will stay upright with no effort at all.

Lightweight but tough, Hand Command is an original and different RC toy that’s great fun for indoor flying.

 Watch the video to see it in action!

To the fore with the USB Golfer

Brand new for 2008 the USB golfer is ready to head up the leader-board as one of the hottest gadgets going.

Controlled via the PC keyboard, you can choose the power, swing, spin and angle of the shots. With a safe, realistic looking golf-ball, extra clubs and a golfing green, this miniature golfer is the ideal gift for golfing fanatics who’re stuck in the office when they wish they were out on the links.

Here’s some footage of the prototype:

 

Aerobatic Avion

The Avion Easy Fly Future Tech BiPlane, to give it its full name, or just ‘Avion’ for short, is the most advanced indoor RC aircraft available and Thumbs Up is the first company to exclusively bring it to the UK marketplace.

Here at Thumbs Up, we’ve really been enjoying trying it out, and it really is an astonishing toy. It’s so light that if you balanced it on your fingers and closed your eyes, you could barely tell it was there.

Anyway, we wanted to share this video of it flying around the inside of a house with you:

 

 

Thumbs Up to Spring Fair

PRESS RELEASE

Thumbs Up (UK) Ltd, the company that specialises in cool and innovative gadgets and toys has some fascinating developments that’ll be debuting at Spring Fair, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC from the 3rd to the 7th of February 2008.

The company’s big news is that Thumbs Up is proud to announce it has signed a distribution deal with US manufacturer, Interactive Toy Concepts to offer retailers a range of innovative radio-controlled flying toys that offer amazing flight fun at excellent price points.

There’s the iFly Vamp – a spooky R/C vampire bat that flies by flapping its wings. And licensed from the Tom Cruise air combat movie classic, the Top Gun MicroFighter is a highly manoeuvrable R/C miniature fighter that’s capable of performing advanced aerobatics and stunts.

 

Also brand new for 2008 is the USB Boxer – plugging into a computer’s USB port and guided with an onscreen control panel – you control his punches as the boxer takes on the speed ball. Fully interactive software and realistic boxing ring sounds make this a satisfying way to work out some aggression!

A radical idea that Thumbs Up will have on display is the Steam Spa – a luxurious portable steam spa sauna that can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home. Constructed from hi-tech fabric on a flexible frame, the Steam Spa is simple and safe to use, easy to control and is fully foldable to take up the minimum of space when stored away.

With loads more new giftware and gadget ideas for 2008, make sure you pay a visit to Thumbs Up at Spring Fair in Hall 5 on Stand D10.

For further information, please email sales@thumbsupuk.com or call 0845 466 8880.

T-Qualizer Biker

Just for fun, here’s a video of a biker wearing a Thumbs Up T-Qualizer shirt. Watch how it reacts to the engine sound!

T-Qualizers are available to buy from Play.com.

Wifi-detector t-shirt – the ultimate in geek-wear

Thanks to our friends in the USA at ThinkGeek.com, Thumbs Up are able to offer the WiFi Detector T-Shirt exclusively to retailers in the UK marketplace.

 

There’s now no need to crack open your laptop or walk around waving your PDA about to find out if there’s a WiFi signal in the vicinity as this stylish T-shirt displays the current WiFi signal strength in your surroundings to everyone around you.

 

Glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the WiFi signal strength fluctuates. Perfect for finding the best places to access WiFi in Coffee Shops or when out and about, and even in your own home or workplace, the WiFi Detector T-Shirt shows the connections that are floating about in the airwaves all around you.

 

A great novelty t-shirt that would make an excellent gift for any technophile, the WiFi detector T-Shirt also makes the ideal promotional item or giveaway for companies in the Internet or telecoms sector.

Thumbs Up goes 50Fifty!

Thumbs Up (UK) ltd is delighted to announce that from early 2008 it will be the distribution partner for novelty and gift items from 50Fifty Concepts Ltd.

50fifty prides itself on offering a wide range of gifts from the ‘useful, with a twist’ to the ‘hilariously useless’. Thumbs Up will be distributing products from 50fifty initially including the Pole Dancer Alarm Clock, Parrot, USB Speedo, Light Up Gnomes and Drinking Optic Alley.

Thumbs Up’s Business development director, Wojtek Kolan said: “We feel this a great development for our company and our customers. 50Fifty Concepts have some of the best gift and novelty items in the world and the new products they’ve created that we’re going to be distributing include some exciting surprises!”

Thumbs Up expands its offerings with exciting new distribution deals.

The cool and innovative toy, gift, novelty and gadget distributor Thumbs Up (UK) ltd is proud to announce that it is adding a significant new range to its line up of products.

Thumbs Up is well-known for its exciting remote controlled flying toys and is set to offer even more exhilarating and inventive new products from US manufacturer, Interactive Toy Concepts.

The new flying toys that Thumbs Up will be offering to retailers include the iFly Vamp – a spooky R/C vampire bat that flies by flapping its wings; the MicroFighter – a super-fast miniature Top Gun style fighter-plane that can perform advanced aerobatics and stunts, as well as various ‘Blimps’ – remote controlled model airships that are lifted skywards by helium.

Miniature R/C helicopters are taking off as one of this year’s big crazes and Thumbs Up will also be offering Interactive Toy Concept’s ‘Bladerunner’ line, which offers amazingly stable and controllable flight fun at an excellent price point.

Business development director, Wojtek Kolan comments: “This is big news for us. We think that there is no one with such as super range of products as Interactive Toy Concepts in the flying toys arena. We’re very happy to be their distribution partner.”

He continues: “I’d also like to take this opportunity to stress that unlike many other companies we do not simply order stock from our manufacturing base at the point customers’ requests come in. We’ve got really strong confidence in our products so we take the chance and hold high levels of stock in our Ruilsip warehouse, so that retailers’ orders can be filled.”

For more information, please call Thumbs Up on 0845 466 8880 or email info@thumbsupuk.com

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