Key Features Unique new patented product. Nothing like it on the market! Amazing, long distance, floating glide* astonishes spectators! Fantastic flying billboard with 20 square inches of advertising message! Dual usage capability as both a Beverage Can Insulator and a flying toy! Obsoletes all existing non-flying Can Coolers! Terrific outdoor recreation appeal for adults as well as small children, teenagers and seniors. CanoSOARus is a perfect size for young hands. Easily flown by children as young as 5 years old. Keeps beverages cool - longer** than the typical thick non-flying Beverage Can Insulator. Safe to play with because it is soft, pliable and super light. CanoSOARus only weights 0.6 ounce! Superb floatation makes CanoSOARus a great water toy and it always floats upright after landing in water. CanoSOARus is small enough to still fit in most automobile cup holder. Thick foam Beverage Can Insulators CAN'T!!

to the CanoSOARus World Records section
(or if you like, you can first read the following technical footnotes
on FLYING CanoSOARus and our insulation comparisons)

*FLYING HINTS
A. Make sure the beverage can is removed! (A very small percentage of people just don't pay attention to or read instructions - but not people capable of using the Internet - right?)
B. Make sure you are throwing it so the black molded plastic base is in front! (It only flops through the air about four feet if you throw it backwards!)
C. Grip the black molded plastic base with your thumb and fingers as shown on the included instruction sheet.
D. Throw it sidearm and near horizontal with some added spin - similar to a football bullet pass (not upwards like one would throw a hard ball - as CanoSOARus is a GLIDER with lift and drag characteristics and it will STALL and just flop out of the sky like any airplane).
E. Do not waste your time trying to fly CanoSOARus in a small room or hallway!  It works, but it is not the least bit as exciting and amazing as when you get outside and have some decent room!
F. If you are still having trouble getting impressive long distance glides - find a 10 year old kid to teach you - they all seem to have an instinctive knack on how to get CanoSOARus to fly right!
GOOD LUCK and ENJOY!

**INSULATION COMPARISON
You don't need thermocouple instrumentation to compare the insulating quality of the special closed cell, cross-linked foam used in CanoSOARus.  Just do a side by side comparison.  Put one cold pop can in a CanoSOARus and another in an ordinary thick can cooler. Just feel the outside every so often.  The one that starts feeling the least bit cold on the outside surface is not insulating as well!  The high tech thin CanoSOARus foam always wins!!

Further proof that our thin foam is a surprisingly awesome insulator comes from the following recent technical article:

The same brand and thickness of cross-linked foam used in CanoSOARus PROTECTS $5.5 million DEEP SPACE camera!

Astronomers at Princeton University are using Volara, a fine-celled, crosslinked, polyethylene foam, to protect a $5.5 million digital camera from condensation and ice. The camera uses CCDs (charged couple devices) to sense light sources in the sky over a wide area.  The camera was built over a four-year period at Princeton for astronomers to construct a 3D map of the universe a thousand times larger than existing surveys. The CCDs are operated in a vacuum and continuously cooled to -80 degrees C with liquid nitrogen.  The quarter-inch stainless steel lines which deliver the liquid nitrogen must be kept free of ice and condensation to protect other sensitive components in the 30-in. round camera.  Michael Carr, mechanical engineer and senior staff member at Princeton explained that the CCD cooling system behaves like a high-efficiency dehumidifier. "Normally, while running liquid nitrogen through a stainless steel tube, ice appears immediately.  When liquid nitrogen is turned off (which happens frequently with this type of cooling system), melting ice gets into areas where metal components can corrode and sensitive electronics can foul, causing damage to expensive instrumentation". Conventional insulating materials become inflexible and brittle and disintegrate under these cryogenic conditions.  Carr solved the problem by wrapping the eight, four-foot nitrogen delivery lines with 1/8th-inch thick Volara foam (the same material CanoSOARus uses to insulate your beverages!!)

Says Carr, "We actually dipped the material in liquid nitrogen to see what would happen. Where most materials instantly become brittle, the Volara crosslinked foam maintained its flexibility.  In addition to remaining flexible to  -320 degrees C, the superb insulation properties of the Volara foam inhibit up to 99% of the condensation typically generated under these conditions." Carr said when the liquid nitrogen is flowing through a bare stainless steel tube, it only takes three or four minutes to accumulate a 1/8th-inch thick layer of ice.  With Volara foam, the lines accumulate only a superficial coating of frost, insuring reliability of the camera.              (Reference DesignMart Magazine –                           February 1998 issue) _____________________________________ Conclusion:  If Princeton's engineering research tells them Volara is the best insulator available to keep the super coldness of of liquid nitrogen from escaping, it sure will be doing the same for your beverages!