My Father’s Day gift was one of those little Air Hogs Havoc Heli RC helicopters.  I’ll cut to the chase: buy the darn thing.  Best $30 you can spend, and they’re available at your local Walmart or on thinkgeek.com.  My kids love it, my cats love it, and I love it.  It takes a little tweaking and practice to get any kind of control, and you’re not going to do any Coast Guard-style precision rescues with it  You’ll probably fly it into someone’s eye, but that’s half the fun.  So, details.  It’s tiny and very light.  It’s a little more sturdy than I expected; it’s not going to break from a fall, and it doesn’t move too fast.  The IR remote works quite well, and there’s even a trim control to keep you from going all dizzy.  So if you saw this thing at the store, and you thought there’s no way and RC helicopter that cheap could be any fun, you’re wrong.  By the stupid thing; you won’t regret it.