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The Union => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: Sal Atticum on September 01, 2010, 09:23:46 PM

Title: More college students need to get these
Post by: Sal Atticum on September 01, 2010, 09:23:46 PM

http://toucharcade.com/2010/08/30/unboxing-and-first-impressions-with-the-parrot-ar-drone/

Control it with your iPhone and get video back.  Sweet.

Title: Re: More college students need to get these
Post by: pmp6nl on September 02, 2010, 05:23:44 PM

Quote from: Sal Atticum on September 01, 2010, 09:23:46 PM

http://toucharcade.com/2010/08/30/unboxing-and-first-impressions-with-the-parrot-ar-drone/

Control it with your iPhone and get video back.  Sweet.

Sweet.  Imagine the havoc people could cause if it had even a small payload capacity... muwahahahaha.

Interestingly the helicopter's OS is Linux.

Title: Re: More college students need to get these
Post by: Plantains on September 02, 2010, 07:48:10 PM

I have 2 rc copters. None are this cool though. Where was the price? Couldn't find it...

Title: Re: More college students need to get these
Post by: pmp6nl on September 02, 2010, 10:37:34 PM

$299 ... http://toucharcade.com/2010/06/15/e3-2010-parrot-ar-drone-due-in-september-for-299/