Drones now synonymous with U.S. military strikes in hotspots like Afghanistan. But the French company has now built a mini version piloted by giving iPhone video games on the streets.
Represents the flying saucer-like AR.Drone - your reality increases - caused a sensation when it was indicated on the unsuspecting world at trend setting consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas last week.
This week the creators gave AFP the company's next show in their offices at the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, where quadricopter "" perplexed and impressed passers-by on a cold winter evening.
One of the 10 engineers who spent four years developing a drone tapped the button on the iPhone it takes from the land and make it hover near the dark waters of the canal.
Then he tilted the phone or forward it sideways to manoeuvre around nearby trees and park benches.
The machine's four propellers whirred calm as he moved through the air, a camera streaming live video from two cameras, three Wi-Fi, to the pilot on the telephone.
You can stay the drone moves at 18 kilometers (11 miles) per hour, airborne for 15 minutes after 60-minutes Battery charge, the maximum range of 50 meters (yards), and weighs just over 300 grams, or half a pound.
The automatic flight stabilization makes it much better to any other flying toys currently on store market, the company.
"We use very sophisticated technology development - technology used in military and commercial drones," said Henri Seydoux, founder of the Parrot, the company making the toys.
AR.drone is fun to pilot and probably would have hit if he has anything but flying around and onlookers astonish.
But its creators are far more plans for it: a video-gaming.
They represent and encourage this but they have no interest in having their engines used for aerial photography, spying or any other thing.
Back inside their offices, Parrot team proudly displayed their engine capacities.
An engineer to the drone in the air and as soon as they saw the cameras were targets set up around the room, was the transformation of the iPhone screen in the virtual robots to be then he could fire missiles.
To be a beacon serves as target drones on other permits two or more parties to tackle air inside or outside.
This is the aspect of increased reality - merging the physical world with the virtual world.
"This will be expressed drone not only kids play games on their computers but in the garden, the country, or on the beach," Seydoux said the Parrot, which employed 450 people and has previously specialized in the possession of wireless systems free.
"A child can pilot it. I want to make it both very easy to use and safe," he said.
The engineers increased gaming reality show, in essence, but they point out the AR.Drone built on the open platform and the company is inviting outside developers to create games for the device.
The prospect of creating a robot battles increasing reality in much excitement on the gaming world. Gaming websites are awash with comments from the hovered over the heads AR.Drone the awed visitors to the Las Vegas show technical.
Games blog on the Guardian newspaper said Britain was a prediction that has come true "that we all die one day be indulging in real life games, robotic strong slaves in battle on the streets of our towns and cities, as a control We carnage through our computers. "
There are already increasing reality applications in the fields of medicine, defense, navigation, education, and in gaming.
But many observers are touting the AR.Drone as heralding another major thing in the world of video games, in 2009 was worth more than 50 billion dollars (35 billion euros) worldwide, according to industry figures.
But gamers will have to be patient. Parrot says only that a drone going on sale some time this year, and they refuse to confirm the price of 500 dollars that bandied about in the newspapers.
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The Apple iTunes Store page for donations Haiti
Apple has added to the iTunes Store page that allows people to donate to the American Red Cross to assist people affected by the earthquake of January 12 in Haiti.
On these pages you can click on to donate $ 5, $ 10, $ 25, $ 50, $ 100, or $ 200. The Apple that goes 100 per cent of the donations to the Red Cross, and will "support emergency relief efforts to assist people affected by the earthquake." Donations can go to relief supplies, mobilizing relief workers, or providing financial resources.
Apple also says that iTunes for some personal information to the Red Cross, so that you get only receive email from the iTunes standard email.
Many companies have recently pledged to donate profits from their apps with the relief efforts as well.
Note that you can use iTunes Store credit-donations towards my donation this morning and did not change my credit balance.
