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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.
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.
Lol.. then this isn't exactly designed with you in mind.
The concept is that whenever, doing whatever, that you are doing, you can easily deploy this thing, it will follow you and then return ready to do it again. So it is not comparable to a tripod and a camera as you sometimes never know what you might come across when hiking, biking or whatever. Even in a city environment (I don't know about using around cops at they might shoot it or arrest you or something), there can be times when you want something documented. With this, you do not need to lug around a camera and tripod and hope all the action happens only have you set it up and is times perfectly with the timer on the camera. You simply think hmm.. This is interesting, I want video/pictures, undo a clasp, make a gesture with your hand, a few seconds later, you have them.