Posted on 06/17/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by PoloSec
According to CNET, a small company has created a drone that will follow you and record your action sports maneuvers from the sky.
Called AirDog, the drone is different from other video recording drones because it follows you around while filming. A quad-copter, or basically a helicopter with four distinct rotating blades on the corners of the drone, AirDog is equipped with a Go-Pro camera for filming.
Specifically dedicated to sports such as water skiing, motorcycle racing and surfing, the user wears a wristband that acts as a location sensor for the drone to follow that user.
Furthermore, AirDog has numerous different modes as you can adjust the altitude of its flight and the angle of its camera to make a perfect video of your actions.
The company says that the drone will change the nature of filming action sports. Before, you were forced to attach a Go-Pro camera to your helmet or have someone else film you from the ground or fly a camera drone themselves.
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Neat to begin with...but it would get boring real fast just watching me walk around town.
The obvious implications are troubling.
If every player on both teams had an “Air Dog” to record a soccer match; that could result in some exciting video — of all the drone crashes.
That would explain where they got all the historical video of away missions on Star Trek...
Aerial Narcissism
surely it doesn’t have the SD space to record all of my awesomeness...
I suspect we’ll eventually see aerial drone battles.
This gun club has the right idea:
I would like a frisbee-sized drone that could hover 3-400 feet above my car and help me navigate rush hour traffic.
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I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any moreTo know that
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My lasers trace
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This thing’s disturbing enough even if it’s used as ostensibly intended. I’d say too many people are raging egomaniacs enough already without having their very own personal highlight camera.
Not when they film something totally embarrassing. This could have the effect of making them humble. I’m a big fan of the Millenials.
They’ve inherited a pile of mess they didn’t make. I suspect they’ll be the Greatest Generation.
You're probably right, but I can't help thinking about the last run I made on a NASTAR ski race course a couple of years ago. It knocked a number of seconds off my prior best run, and one way to improve is to see and identify your errors. It would be fun to watch some of our pick-up b'ball games, too...
>> I’m a big fan of the Millenials.
Me too; they’re gonna pay my Medicare and SS!
It’s gonna happen, pervs will find a way, as with any visual tech. Why guns are important. See one hoovering outside your window...fire!
I was wondering how it would record Superman.
Or, shoot you.
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