Military Remote Control Spydrone? There's an app for that.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is on at the moment, over in Las Vegas. Which is why every technology news service is blowing up right now and dropping a million articles into your RSS reader… countless numbers of technology companies, big and small, have been saving up all their big announcements for this.
The one that caught my eye this morning is verging on the ridiculous side of genius…
…called the AR.Drone, it’s a military style remote control drone, with camera, that you control using your iPhone.
No, really. Have a look:
It’s from a French company called Parrot. They started with a remote controlled car, originally, and thought that might be a little tame…
It reminds me a bit of the film ‘Toys’ with Robin Williams…
…except in that they took toys and made ’em into war tech, rather than the other way round…
Yes, OK, it’s not world changing, but it certainly looks like a lot of fun…
…and it makes you think of what this technology will soon be able to do.
For instance, stick a small screen on it, hook it up to a Skype account and voilà, you’ve got your very own flying avatar.
Which will make it a whole lot easier to go to meetings when the snow knocks out the transport infrastructure…
(via Mashable / Herdmeister / Guardian)
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