06 Sep Everyone Needs a Personal Helicopter Drone
06.09.10
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The day approaches when everyone will have their own drone. I think I’d like this a Christmas present. Behold the Parrot.AR ipod-itouch-ipad controlled drone – available for pre-order at Amazon, coming out later this year.
The Parrot Drone
For some videos of how to use the Parrot to annoy golfers and bulls (!) see this post by John Robb at Global Guerillas. Robb also wonders how the ubiquity of such new surveillance tech (especially once it gets hacked and adapted) may affect “open source warfare.”
By the way, regarding the relationship of the Parrot to actual military drone technology, it’s worth noting that while the for the Parrot uses an iPhone as a controller, MIT’s Human Automation Lab has recently done a “proof of concept” for using iPhones to control new light-weight military drones. An app for military air operations? Top that, Blackberry!