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Posted on 01/08/2010 12:14:58 PM PST by Swordmaker
Parrot has unveiled the AR.Drone, the first quadricopter that can be controlled by iPhone and iPod touch.
Thanks to the accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch that's constantly detecting users' movements, the AR.Drone is very easy to pilot by leaning the iPhone forward or sideways to corner or change direction. On the iPhone's Multi-Touch™ screen, command buttons provide rise, down, rotate, back, forward, etc. AR.Drone is designed for flying inside and outside. Features include autopilot, Wi-FI, two cameras, ultrasound sensor and more.
Pilots see the AR.Drone's camera output in real time on their iPhone and iPod touch screens.
Direct link via YouTube here.
The release date is listed as "2010" and no pricing information is currently available.
More info here.
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Need tiny Hellfire missiles!
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Itty bitty Gattling Guns?
Dartgun with darts tipped with tree frog slime.
See, I knew a cell phone would end up having a purpose, sooner or later.
It’s freakin cool......
And, how long do you think it might be that they are outlawed except for police and military. That, of course, would leave them available for terrorism since terrorism is out of control anyway.
Ummm..., I can now safely predict a rapid climb in marketshare for iPhone, with CIA sales (perhaps NSA) and other alphabet agencies, along with all sort of people wanting to spy on their neighbors (and a few peeping toms, too, in the mix... I suspect)... LOL...
Way cool !
You got an app for that?
I just showed it to my cousin on my iPhone (on the YouTube connection there) and she said, “I want one!”... LOL...
I wasn’t sure whether she was talking about the iPhone or the drone, though... :-)
looks like it can carry 80 grams of PETN
Dont think for a moment that these will not be used in terrorism. They will be.
What was the movie with Clint Eastwood that had the radio controlled car that blew up somebody?
Tie this in with cell phone technology and it could get quite interesting. Just need to learn to fly it into a crowd of people and BANG Who needs suicide bombers any more?
I understand that the expected retail is “around $500.00”
it be interesting if they could convert an entire building floor into a game arena, and have these drones do combats with each other
similar thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2423837/posts
cool enough for dozens of threads, but it is nice to see more comments...
Alas, their Open Source license for the software restricts useful purposes of this device. Of course, there will be other vendors to fulfill the market demand.
(v) To use the PARROT SDK Drone API’s to develop an application other than a Game for AR.Drone. The Game for AR.Drone, shall have for sole purpose to be used by a User or entertaining, game, leisure or training. The creation of applications for the use of the PARROT Drone for military, and, without limitation, security, watching, spying, defence, air photography, cartography, is strictly forbidden.
ping for later.
I have an overwhelming desire to yell “pull” and blast away.
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