Your very own Pixy.
You’ve got some good news if you were in the market from a tiny drone that records things and sends them to your Snapchat. Because Snapchat is making just such a drone; dubbed the Pixy, it goes for $230.
The site they set up for the little drone lays out all the details.
Everything you need to capture the moment from a new perspective is right in the palm of your hand. With the simple tap of a button, Pixy flies in four preset flight paths. It can float, orbit, and follow wherever you lead, without a controller or any set-up. And, Pixy finds its home in your hand, landing gently at the end of the flight.
Pixy is a companion to Snapchat. Videos from flights are wirelessly transferred and saved into Snapchat Memories. From there, use Snapchat’s editing tools, Lenses, and Sounds to customize what you capture. With a few taps, you can automatically crop into portrait and apply quick Smart Edits, like Hyperspeed, Bounce, Orbit 3D and Jump Cut. Then, share to Chat, Stories, Spotlight, or any other platform.
It seems to be a nifty piece of kit, but as the site warns, you should check local laws to make sure you can even use it in your area. If I were a betting man, most destinations you might want to use it probably won’t let you do so, but it’s worth checking.
This is actually the second piece of hardware that Snapchat has developed. The first were called Spectacles, which were glasses that could record 10 seconds of footage and, much like Pixy, send that video to your Snapchat account. They ultimately didn’t have a large production run, though; they, much like Pixy probably is right now, were more of an experiment to see whether the idea would take off.
CEO Evan Spiegel says that they’re going for a “slow approach to rolling them [Pixy] out” as “it’s about us figuring out if it fits into people’s lives”.
Source: IGN
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