Wearable quadcopters are the future of selfies

So you don't have to risk death while taking a photo of yourself rock-climbing - 

While the likes of Apple and Samsung are telling you the future of technology lies in their newest smartphone or watch, a team that won Intel’s Make It Wearable challenge is making those tech big shots look like chums with the Nixie – the world’s first wearable, flying camera.

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Sure you can fix a camera to a giant drone and take what you think is the ultimate selfie, but can you wear your drone on your wrist and let it fly off when you need to take a picture?

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What if you’re in the middle of something and want pictures, but there’s no one around? Here’s where the Nixie comes in. The bracelet camera weighs about a tenth of a pound and unfolds into a quadcopter which is capable of capturing HD images and syncs with its owner’s smartphone. 

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Wearable cameras win because...

The bracelet camera comes with three distinct features that’ll make you feel like Batman:

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• The Boomerang mode lets the Nixie fly to a fixed distance from its owner and take a picture.
• The Panorama takes an aerial 360-degree photograph.
• The Follow Me mode has the Nixie airborne, following its owner while shooting a video.

Jelena Jovanovic, technical program manager at Google and part of Nixie’s project management team, put it perfectly, “We’re not trying to build a quadcopter, we’re trying to build a personal photographer.”

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