Draganflyer X6: Your own personal spy drone
UAVs aren't just for soldiers and horny lab assistants anymore: the Draganflyer X6 will put a remote-controlled, auto-stablizing flying camera platform into your hands for just $15k. A mount on the bottom can hold a variety of cameras, including video, still, and thermal imagers. (Anything, really, but I just wanted to mention thermal so I could imagine flying through Humboldt County and picking out the grow rooms.)
The X6 has a fancy four-axis remote with an OLED screen inside, but its onboard computers make it relatively simple to fly. Dual motors on each of its three arms keep the X6 flying even if a motor — or even a whole rotor — go kaput. And a built-in GPS system lets you punch in lat-and-long coordinates and kick back while the X6 does the spying for you.
It also packs into a handle travel tube.
In short: I want one. If only I didn't think I'd be shot by police and citizens alike if I started flying one around Manhattan.
Draganfly product page [Draganfly.com via Technabob]
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can't wait to hear about the first gathering of papparazzi spy copters crashing into each other over britney spear's pool ...
I've always thought it would be cool to attach some cheap wifi cam to one of them 40$ RC copters you find on thinkgeek or such ... but by the time it is ready for the masses, it will be banned ...
But think about the great shots you would get flying one of those things through the alleys of manhattan ...
So are these like flies for spiderman to hunt?
Totally sweet. Now we just need an open source DIY version with plans. I'd spend a week or two learning carbon fiber methods in order to save $10k.
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You might get away with it okay in Manhattan. Just don't pull that kind of stuff in Boston: they will beat the crap out of you and hang you out to dry.
Post dejavu?!
i've seen this somewhere before,... wasn't there a character similar to this on an episode of Venture Bros? that tall guy that screamed "IGNORE ME!" a lot?