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Nixie Wearable Drone Camera Flies Off Your Wrist
MojoKid writes Over the past couple of years, drones have become popular enough to the point where a new release doesn't excite most people. But Nixie is different. It's a drone that you wear, like a bracelet. Whenever you need to let it soar, you give it a command to unwrap, power it up, and let it go. From the consumer standpoint, the most popular use for drones is to capture some amazing footage. But what if you want to be in that footage? That's where Nixie comes in. After "setting your camera free", the drone soars around you, keeping you in its frame. Nixie is powered by Intel's Edison kit, which is both small enough and affordable enough to fit inside such a small device.
The future is now. And it's freaking cool, man.
Oh, I'm sure some nay-sayers will be like "but who really needs this?"
To which I say "need? Who cares about need?"
Might have to click a button further down the list on the Slashdot 'Toy Collection' Poll.
A far away photo of myself? Tripod and camera. I would use this drone camera almost never
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I wonder if an actual prototype has been built
That's a beautiful little project.
This is a freaking fantastic piece of tech -- but it really needs to be given a much larger budget and a better design team to make this something the masses would wear. But for a prototype, it's just fine. Hopefully someone with the design sense of Apple will buy them and take this to the next level. Other applications like a Personal Assistant or Scout would be great add-ons for usage as well.
It's sorta something from a low-budget science fiction TV show..
I can see military uses for a tiny lightweight personal spotter like this.
Otherwise, if it's cheap and it can track its 'owner' well enough it could be the next fad for YouTube clips.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
The trouble with little multi-rotors is that the slightest breeze sends them sailing. They're fun to fly indoors but not very useful outside.
I am heavily into multirotor construction and design, I also love FPV and routinely film with a gimbal and several types of cameras.
So this disappoints me to see this offering, there are a lot of morons out there with their Phantoms causing problems.
Past a certain size these things are flying lawn mowers and if you take a look at the number of youtube videos of people flying these over people and property it's disgusting.
I'm certain my favorite thing in the World will be outlawed due to the number of idiots out there, and this "toy" makes it even more likely.
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Where do I put my money?
Back in your wallet, this thing is a joke.
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Nixies are already a thing, I'd appreciate it if you chose a different name.
UNLESS said drone is equipped with Nixie tubes. That would be wonderful.
Object recognition is hard, which is why they didn't mention it.
Object tracking is not. It's done all the time. How do you think a Kinect works?
More people taking selfies....
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
I fail to see where the 3D printer is in that video. Indeed, unless they release the files so I can 3D print one at home, they are cave dwelling Luddites.
The Artificial Kid's drone camera entourage has entered the building.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
There aren't any videos of it flying (there's shots of it taking off but there is no videos of it flying) while there are plenty of videos of other things flying. There's a reason for this: they can't get this design to fly reliably because the arms aren't rigid enough and never will be.
Having an idea doesn't mean it'll work.
It's only a concept, but, sure, this is doable.
You could probably do it with a Parrot ar.drone. In fact, I presume it's already been done.
I won an ar.drone 2.0 in a hackathon. I have to be honest, and say that, really, I won an ar.drone 2.0 by wandering down to a hackathon in my hotel seeking pizza and aspirin, found them, and then stuck around for a while. I showed somebody which API call to make to save an image in the Rhodes mobile platform, and got a drone as a contributor to the "honorable mention" Motorola team entry. (The Motorola employees weren't eligible for a prize, and they had a LOT of drones to give away...)
Anyway, I haven't played with it much yet. I was remarking to a friend how limited it is by the WiFi range, and they remarked that it would still be ideal for having the drone follow you around. The ar.drone seems to have everything it would need to do that.
Of course, it won't fit on your wrist.
The device in the video is a very similar configuration in smaller packaging.
...people who'd like to videograph themselves playing with their kids or pets. Holding a camera in front of your face gets in the way of that kind of spontaneity, and a stationary camera on a tripod wouldn't be much use for following action.
Sure... You can tell it's the future cause the vaporware now comes as vaporwear.
From TFA:
Absolutely no information about availabilty seems to be listed anywhere, but if you head on over to the official website (linked to below), you can add your email to the company's mailing list to keep up-to-date.
And videos are just your run of the mill advertisement for imaginary products.
Showing diddly-squat of actual operation or even wearing of the product, while showing instead obviously fake videos of them throwing the "prototype" off screen (which does not even clip on to the hand at this point) and "drone footage" which is too well focused and stabilized to be from a wrist-mountable drone camera, obviously NOT wrist-mountable drones flying around, 3D renderings, and not even a single 360-degree shot to prove it was done with at least a camera hanging off of a drone (or a movable crane).
Oh... It's a part of a contest sponsored by Intel?
With prizes of $50,000 to finalists (10) and a $500,000 grand prize (1)?
Well why didn't you say so? I've got a design for a floating cloud sofa I could have entered.
It's like this only with an "intel inside" logo taped to it.
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That board just came out. Sure they slapped it into a drone and made it all work. 95% of the peripherals aren't out yet in breakout form, and it has a connector design that will take more than a few OSHPark runs to get right. It is an interesting concept, but these guys just slapped cool brands on it to get attention.
So. Apple has no design sense either unless you enjoy blah, flat, shades of grey and white. Oh hell, I forgot. I'm totally wrong. They've got patents for rounded corners! What did we do before rounded corners? Get our shins fucked up by the coffee table, that's what!
So this plus an Oculus Rift connected to a wearable computer == 3rd person POV for your own life?
As long as the batteries hold out, anyway. So, 20 seconds or so.
It turns its camera on you. Except someone will immediately hack this to take pictures of other people and things, and then you have a spying device.
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If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
is real time streaming to an offsite storage. this way police can be filmed whenever they stop you or anyone else for that matter. You just need a laser aiming system to reset the focal point to others as needed.
Nixies are already a thing, I'd appreciate it if you chose a different name.
UNLESS said tubes are made of/by actual nixies. That would be wonderful.
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