A company you’ve probably heard of before called Always Innovating is working on a pretty awesome little project for smartphones. It’s called the MeCam and is essentially a mini helicopter they’re calling a Nano-Copter complete with video recording and streaming capabilities. The MeCam is designed to follow you around and record every moment. You can stream that video right to your Android phone and even share it to your social site of preference or YouTube.
This is instantly one of those “shut up and take my money” devices because it looks awesome. One of the biggest features that sold us instantly was the two ways in which the MeCam operates. No controls are needed and you simply use voice-commands for operations and maneuvers. The second being their “follow me” feature where the Nano-copter will literally follow your every move once synced to your smartphone.
The best part about this quadcopter is Always Innovating hopes to eventually sell this unique device for just $49. So how does it fly? It launches from your hand and will hover instantly using the patented 3 stabilization algorithms. Two which are auto-pilots, and the third being an impressive video stabilization feature. This is how it manages to always stay upright, level, and hover with ease. Check it out:
The MeCam will be your own personal paparazzi, or your cheaper alternative for Google Glass – since that will be costing an arm and a leg. If you want to record your every moment on vacation with ease, the MeCam could do just that. Sadly we have no details on battery life or camera quality, but the device runs with a 1.5 GHz Cortex-A9 processor, 1GB of RAM, micro-SD for storage, and WiFi/Bluetooth is also on board. The company hopes their initial design and multiple models with varying camera capabilities and battery life will hit the streets in 2014. Pretty neat right?
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I can’t wait for the NSA to start using these bad boys 😀
Ever since I saw “The Beast Master” back in the 80s’ I’ve envisioned having some personal drones that would roam around me allowing me to expand awareness. Very glad this technology is advancing so quickly.
Wow… Pretty sweet. Especially the function for the price.
I give it 10min of flight time…15min at best 🙁
I’m hoping for 2hrs though 🙂
True.. Hopefully at least an hour or two.
Kinda reminds me of those flying cameras in Half Life 2 that were always up in your face come to think of it. I hope they don’t have blinding flashes.
haha. HL:2 FTW
If this gizmo gets on the shop shelf for 49 quid,then i’ll eat my own head???? Noo chaaaance! its a great idea,but expect it to end up around £180 atleast! battery will be 10 mins. or a mini lithium ion for ££. cool li’l gadget though.
Don’t tell the boss
I’ve got a little helicopter with a LiPo battery the only gets about 10 minutes. I doubt this and get much more than that. But I want one.
Yeah, I’ve got several r/c helicopters of varying sizes and not one of them flies for more than 10 minutes on a single charge. Looking at the size of that, it’s not going to do much better.
A very neat idea, and a cool little toy, but ultimately nothing more than a gimmick gadget.
Hey I have one of those.. it charges off the remotes AA battery though. So this could be better, but not by much. We’ll see
unless it can fly for 2 hours its useless.
and then a gust of wind came…
like you ever leave the house anyway.
Someday maybe these gadgets can run in an atom of uranium with a half life to power it up essentially forever.
This is the most stupid and pointless thing I have ever seen or heard of in my life. What a pointless waste of time and the earths resources.
can design as an emergency situation — just like the one in Delhi recently,,,, Where it would link to 100 and stream videos to concerned…..
“Ingenious, I need one of these to work in Tijuana B.C. Mexico!!!” “Via smart phone:Nexus 5-KEY LIME PIE 444” “EL TORERO”
Can I get 6 of them to follow me in formations so I can do some matrix style cuts
Interesting that they can price it out already when they’re not shipping for at least a year. Would rather they just billed it as a cheap mini quadcopter with a camera instead of some dumb social media picture taker.
Sweeeet! Want! Where to get it and when!
it’s good
PORN, DUH.
It’s cute, but who would actually buy something and have it buzz them all day long, taking pictures and videos of their every move?
serial killer sadists would love this..Watch me work! and from the back, no I.D.
“If you want to record your every moment on vacation with ease, the MeCam could do just that. ” in 5 minute snippets with a 20 minute gap between them. I know how big that LiPo battery is and the run time for such a device is…. 5 minutes before you damage that battery, so it’s 5 minutes run and a 20 minute slow charge. Toy only 100% useless for their claimed uses.
Powered by a cell that harnesses wind energy and the rotors provide the wind, a 10 minute charge from the grid fills the start up battery and is only used to power up, much like a car with a yellow top optima battery. This is what I am hoping for 😉
They don’t show a video from the copter camera. Show me that, and prove to me that the video is coming from the actual copter, then I’ll be interested.