When it comes to toys, people subconsciously think of children or pets. In a certain sense, toys are indeed objects that children play with. If you find an adult playing with children's toys, you will basically cast a disdainful look.

But in a broad sense, toys are not only suitable for children. They are a tool to open the window of wisdom, allowing people to be resourceful and smart. They are also suitable for young people and middle-aged and old people. Of course, if adults play with children's toys, the picture is really not beautiful. Therefore, adults have adult toys, What the author brings today is a technology toy only suitable for adults: Parrot intelligent bouncing car, which enables adults to return to childhood.

A thousand yuan product with poor packaging

At the first sight of the packaging of the Parrot bouncing car, I can hardly imagine that this is a thousand yuan product. There is no doubt that the shabby packaging and the packaging boxes of cheap domestic products, thin and crisp corrugated paper, are hard to withstand the violence of individual couriers.

If you have to look for something worth buying on the package, the front is a "monster" with strange shape and evil eyes, which is quite eye-catching.

On the side of the package is the product specification, which is different from the description in eight languages, but does not include simplified Chinese; The other side is the fuselage module with graphic identification.

On the back are several outstanding skills of Jumping Sumo: 90 ° rotation, 180 ° rotation, 80CM vertical jump, horizontal jump, etc., which may be reduced to three languages due to layout considerations, and simplified Chinese is one of them. For foreign products, there are certain drawbacks in language introduction, and localization is not perfect.

At the bottom is a common English introduction, but there are two obvious Chinese labels, from which we can see that this "toy" comes from Futian, Shenzhen.

Jumping Sumo has a high degree of integration and few accessories. It is a manual in 11 languages with a large amount of information. The author can only honestly read the simplified Chinese description. The size of the manual is, and the international specification is. Although the international style is full, the paper quality is not flattering. It has a spirit of "doing big things, not sticking to small details".

The batteries of the three products launched by Pinot are universal. The battery capacity of 550mAH has never changed, which also determines the endurance of Jumping Sumo (20min) and Rolling Spider (8 minutes). The products of Pinot have always continued the good tradition of falling resistance, so there is a protective shell on the battery instead of the tin foil packaging of the mobile phone battery, which is also the crux of the large size and small capacity of the original Jumping Sumo battery.

In terms of accessories, the Jumping Sumo is very monotonous. It has one lithium-ion battery, power line and two rubber brake pads. Because the Jumping Sumo adopts a two wheel structure, the brake pads are severely damaged.

There are also three cool style stickers, which can be changed according to personal preferences.

Reduced version of "titanium fighter"

Jumping Sumo has an unusual shape, much like the titanium fighter in the movie "Star Wars". Two big wheels occupy most of the body.

It is difficult to identify the positive and negative sides when meeting for the first time, because both sides are very strange, different from normal toy cars.

The whole Jumping Sumo is divided into three systems: energy, power and elasticity. The so-called energy system is a lithium-ion battery. The top of the body where the battery is installed can effectively prevent collisions. The power button is near the battery. Click the power button to switch on and off. There is a small gap in the front of the power button. Here is a Micro USB interface for user charging and external storage devices.

The power of the Jumping Sumo comes from the left and right motors. The two big wheels are indirectly connected to the motor (with a gear set in the middle). As for the wheel frame, my brother's fuselage is large, which greatly protects the fuselage.

The whole wheel is made of high-strength plastic material. A circle of soft foam material is around the wheel, which not only reduces the weight of the body, but also has a certain shock absorption effect. A triangular hub is in the middle.

The elastic system is relatively strong, and can provide a jumping height of 80cm for 180g Jumping Sumo.

The force accumulation of the elastic system is driven by the motor to compress the left and right springs. The spring elasticity is large, and the material of the power accumulation turntable is plastic, which is very easy to be damaged. Parrot is not very good at this point.

The strong elasticity brings Jumping Sumo a vertical jump height of 80cm. It is a safe height for the body and tire to fall below 80cm. It is necessary to be cautious when falling above 80cm. Although the author tested that falling from 1M did not cause visible damage to the body, it is difficult to guarantee an accident.

Changeable expression

Jumping Sumo has a strange facial expression. The overall contour is a defective hemisphere. The eyes are two color changeable LED lights, which show the state of Jumping Sumo through color.

"Mouth" is a wide-angle camera that can stream media on the screen of a smart phone or tablet computer with a resolution of 640 * 480. It can take photos directly in the mobile app. If you need to record video, you need to add a storage device on the body.

The changeable expression comes from the randomly given stickers, which can change various expressions by pasting different stickers. The stickers launched by Pinot are quite strange, with a violent invasion.

Stable and flexible

The triangular hub of the Jumping Sumo wheel has good flexibility, which provides two modes for the bouncing car.

Wheel extension mode: Pull the wheel outward with force to extend the wheel. When the wheel is extended, its stability at high speed can be enhanced (the maximum speed can reach 2m/s).

Wheel shrink mode: the mode can be changed by compressing the wheel with both hands. Under the wheel shrink mode, the flexibility and controllability of the car in a narrow space can be enhanced.

Hands on experience

All Parrot's products are not equipped with a dedicated remote control, which needs to be controlled by installing a corresponding APP (Freelight 3) on the mobile terminal.

Unlike Rolling Spider, Jumping Sumo itself can generate 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz wireless networks to connect with FreeFlight 3 applications. Therefore, during the connection process, you need to manually exit the Jumping Sumo interface and connect the hot spots sent by the Jumping Sumo in the settings.

The control panel is relatively simple. The background of the panel is the real-time image of the Jumping Sumo camera, with low resolution. However, storage devices need to be added for video recording, which will not be demonstrated in the evaluation.

The left side is the joystick, which controls the forward and backward movement, while the direction control uses the gravity sensing of the mobile phone to control the direction by turning the mobile phone left and right.

The right side of the panel is similar to a gyroscope. Sliding left and right controls the 90 ° rotation of the fuselage, and sliding up and down is 180 ° rotation.

The right edge is for video recording, photography, vertical jump, horizontal jump and roll over.

Freelight 3 has many special effect actions built in, and the threshold for getting started is low.

In the setting interface, there are many user-defined options. Users can adjust the speed, rotation curvature, sound, etc. according to their personal habits.

Composition of the Exercise

In the application, you can arrange routes and actions by yourself, and control Jumping Sumo to complete all difficult actions preset in advance with one key.

summary

Jumping Sumo is an exciting toy car. It not only has Nokia like fall resistance, but also has good playability. It can roll, jump, stand upside down, and perform stunts that ordinary toys can't match. In terms of science and technology, Jumping Sumo uses its own accelerometer and gyroscope to find the previous driving direction automatically and accurately at the first time when the driving direction changes due to wrong operations such as collision, jumping, and falling, and automatically adjusts back to the correct direction.

In terms of overall performance, Jumping Sumo is not an ordinary toy. The price of 1000+makes it deviate from the category of ordinary toys. Whether it is worth buying or not depends on personal economic strength and interests, because in the end, it is just an entertainment tool.

advantage

80cm high jump for higher playability
The first person perspective can be viewed in the control equipment
Unique tire design, good fall resistance

Insufficient

External storage device is required for recording and shooting
The battery life is only 20min, and the one-time charging is more than 1h
Video only VGA resolution

Computer scoring: ★★★★ (4 stars)