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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?"
I wonder if an actual prototype has been built
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.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
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.
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.
More people taking selfies....
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
...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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He said design sense of Apple, not marketing department of Apple.
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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.
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.