iPhone controlled personal drone

Posted: January 6th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Are you jealous of those nice CIA drones? Get your – iPhone controlled – personal drone, the Parrot AR.Drone:

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We’re really raising a lot of questions around privacy these days aren’t we ;) ?

5 Comments on “iPhone controlled personal drone”

  1. 1 Frederic Sidler said at 12:05 on January 6th, 2010:

    Check this one out http://www.sensefly.com This is a drone, completely autonomous and Swiss Made ;-)

  2. 2 Dave Brown said at 15:57 on January 6th, 2010:

    Not just questions around privacy but civil disobedience, pacifism and all sorts of other things.

    It’s naive to think one can stop a war by en mass walking peacefully onto the battle field. But if people send or pilot their drones to do this for them then it’s a strange sort of mass teasing, irritation, terrorism or protest.

    You are restricted by physical borders, but your drones aren’t.

  3. 3 laurent said at 15:58 on January 6th, 2010:

    Very interesting prospects effectively…

  4. 4 Kiljoy616 said at 00:39 on January 9th, 2010:

    Lets see how far it really flies from you, wifi does not go very far and iphone is not a very strong controller for wifi output, still if this could be hooked up to a PC and do it from there with 802.11n then I could see something cool, oh the game battles you could create. let the red barren live again.

  5. 5 laurent said at 14:56 on January 10th, 2010:

    Exactly what I heard from people working at Parrot. Wait and see, it’s a proto, wifi based, with pretty limited distance of control. A case of over-hype which will end up having a negative impact on the product?

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