A drone even Enrique would love

The 400g Bebop boasts a signal range of up to 250m, 14-megapixel fisheye camera and 8GB of flash memory. It also comes pre-packed with two batteries that provide about 11 minutes’ flight time each. However, it takes a fair bit of time to get used to navigating the Bebop with a touchscreen device’s accelerometer — though once you do, it’s terrific fun making the quadcopter zip around.

If you’re an absolute noob when it comes to piloting drones, pick up the optional Skycontroller, which is packaged with the Bebop at Dh4,199. It features a pair of joysticks that allow for preciser control while gamepad-like trigger buttons can take pictures and video. Most importantly, there’s a Wi-Fi range extender that lets you send the drone an extra two kilometres away, which is a good fix for the aforementioned altitude issue. The drone is also Oculus Rift-compatible, though we sadly didn’t have ours on hand to try.

— Riaz Naqvi/Subeditor