From the notion of taking selfies everywhere comes the ubiquitous GoPro video cameras that have allowed thousands of people to take HD videos of how cool they are. Not enough of you in your videos, because you have the camera mounted facing forward? Fear not; a whole line of products like this allow you to hold the camera remotely so it can capture your glorious self.
The notion of taking videos of yourself may have just hit its ultimate point: AirDog (auto-start of video warning). AirDog is quadcopter drone with a twist: it has a wrist worn radio transmitter called AirLeash that the drone follows - from a respectful distance. Mounted to the front of AirDog is your video camera, gyro stabilized and always pointed at you.
Afraid you'd do something really awesome without producing a video to send to friends or put on the Tube? Afraid your awesomeness will lost to posterity? Fear no more! For a mere $1300 you can purchase a drone dedicated to recording your awesomeness. Check out their video describing the project.
Perfect for parolees...
ReplyDeleteShould be fitted to every policeman.
ReplyDeleteHah, there was a book, The Artificial Kid, by Bruce Sterling written all the way back in 1980 that had autonomous drones that orbited around people filming everything they did. The title character is a "combat artist" who roams the post urban wastelands engaging in ritualized combat as performance art. Heavy hormone therapies keep him pre-adolescent, which is part of his shtick.
ReplyDeleteWe are living in the future....
I was wondering about the endurance of the gizmo, It would ironic being over the water and the batteries go dead... now you have a wet selfie?
ReplyDeleteIs this how some doofus ended up ditching a drone in one of Yellowstone's hot springs? I can't think of many things less full of win than polluting a superheated puddle of cerulean beauty in a national park with cheap chinese electronics.
ReplyDeleteA Reader - probably not AirDog, This drone isn't on the market yet.
ReplyDeleteNot that it makes it any better.