Get your own personal iAttack / iSpy drone, control it and view the live video feeds through your iPhone.
Is this cool or what !
"Rarely has a technology caused so much excitement when unpacked in our labs as the Parrot AR.Drone. Priced at AUD $349, this is a serious geek's toy, with a heritage that stretches back to the US Air Force drones that attack the Taliban from on high in Afghanistan. Packed with gyroscopes, accelerometers and sensors - all co-ordinated by a computer chip and software - this four-rotor machine will fly and beam video from its two cameras back to your iPhone, which acts as its remote control.
If you want to give your neighbours a rude shock, you could remotely pilot it across the street and have it hover above their backyard or in front of their window! But when testing it, we preferred to dwell on the insanely fun applications, such as dog fights with other flying craft in our offices or buzzing unsuspecting staff from other magazines on the same floor as APC's techies.
With a Wi-Fi range of 50m (it's actually a tiny flying Wi-Fi access point that connects to your iPhone or iPad) you can send the Drone around corners, up stairwells, around bushes and basically anywhere from which you get a live ideo feed from its navigation camera. The carbon tube craft has a lengthy flying time of between 10 and 20 minutes, another feature that sets it apart from other battery-powered remotely controlled craft.
Most of all, you don’t have to learn complicated controls to fly the AR.Drone. Its tilt sensors let you control pitch, roll and yaw just by moving your iPhone. It took us about a minute to figure out how to control it and have it flying around the various obstacles in our office. Its stability in enclosed environments is astonishing. Drop the controls or left it fly out of its 50m range, and it just stops dead in mid-air (eventually landing gently if the control link has been lost).
The Parrod AR.Drone can carry a payload too, a more sinister connection to the military drones in Afghanistan - but since it's only 100grams, you're not going to drop anything that causes much damage.
We think this is the start of a drone revolution. There is already a similar quadricopter drone beign employed by police and security forces around the world, who use it to hover above dangerous situations or even check out suspicious activity where it might be dangerous to send in officers. Normal people might use it to check out if there's broken tiles up on the roof or maybe send it down the road to see what's causing a traffic hold up.
The Parrot control software on the iPhone also comes with augmented reality games, in which you can fly the Drone around and shoot missiles at imaginary craft. If the US Force says the next generation of fighter planes will be pilotless, the Drone could be training the fighter pilots of the future.
The Parrot AR.Drone will retail for AUD $349 and will be available from Telstra and Fonezone stores from next week. Check out the official trailer below."
http://apcmag.com/your-personal-spy-drone.htm#
Is this cool or what !
"Rarely has a technology caused so much excitement when unpacked in our labs as the Parrot AR.Drone. Priced at AUD $349, this is a serious geek's toy, with a heritage that stretches back to the US Air Force drones that attack the Taliban from on high in Afghanistan. Packed with gyroscopes, accelerometers and sensors - all co-ordinated by a computer chip and software - this four-rotor machine will fly and beam video from its two cameras back to your iPhone, which acts as its remote control.
If you want to give your neighbours a rude shock, you could remotely pilot it across the street and have it hover above their backyard or in front of their window! But when testing it, we preferred to dwell on the insanely fun applications, such as dog fights with other flying craft in our offices or buzzing unsuspecting staff from other magazines on the same floor as APC's techies.
With a Wi-Fi range of 50m (it's actually a tiny flying Wi-Fi access point that connects to your iPhone or iPad) you can send the Drone around corners, up stairwells, around bushes and basically anywhere from which you get a live ideo feed from its navigation camera. The carbon tube craft has a lengthy flying time of between 10 and 20 minutes, another feature that sets it apart from other battery-powered remotely controlled craft.
Most of all, you don’t have to learn complicated controls to fly the AR.Drone. Its tilt sensors let you control pitch, roll and yaw just by moving your iPhone. It took us about a minute to figure out how to control it and have it flying around the various obstacles in our office. Its stability in enclosed environments is astonishing. Drop the controls or left it fly out of its 50m range, and it just stops dead in mid-air (eventually landing gently if the control link has been lost).
The Parrod AR.Drone can carry a payload too, a more sinister connection to the military drones in Afghanistan - but since it's only 100grams, you're not going to drop anything that causes much damage.
We think this is the start of a drone revolution. There is already a similar quadricopter drone beign employed by police and security forces around the world, who use it to hover above dangerous situations or even check out suspicious activity where it might be dangerous to send in officers. Normal people might use it to check out if there's broken tiles up on the roof or maybe send it down the road to see what's causing a traffic hold up.
The Parrot control software on the iPhone also comes with augmented reality games, in which you can fly the Drone around and shoot missiles at imaginary craft. If the US Force says the next generation of fighter planes will be pilotless, the Drone could be training the fighter pilots of the future.
The Parrot AR.Drone will retail for AUD $349 and will be available from Telstra and Fonezone stores from next week. Check out the official trailer below."
http://apcmag.com/your-personal-spy-drone.htm#
