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Parrot AR.Drone puts control in your cell phone

By Joni Blecher Follow me on Twitter    |   Thursday, January 14, 2010 (permalink)
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This Parrot AR.Drone (AR stands for Augmented Reality) was definitely one of the more fun cell phone applications demonstrated at CES. Basically it's a Drone that is controlled by an iPhone or an iPod Touch. The AR.Drone flies overhead and you see what it's doing on the screen of your device. The Drone has about 15 minutes of battery life, which my small sampling of folks that use remote control operated devices says isn't terrible. There will be more games in the future and since it has WiFi you'll also be able to play with other users. While the initial software is available for the Apple platform it will also be available for other smartphone OS platforms in the future. If you want to create an app for the AR.Drone via open source development visit ardrone.org. Watch the video below to see it in action.

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