Parrot just announced that they are building 13 new inexpensive minidrones that will take control of the sky, land and, get this, the sea!
We already knew that drones, and minidrones alike, can tackle the blue sky, and the green land, but Parrot amazes us with the new addition – drones in the water medium!
They’re building a new hybrid UAV/Boat that is going to be called the Hydrofoil Drone – the product line will be accompanied by a couple of new Jumping drones, and a new model for their Airborne drone.
Quite strange that Parrot announced these new toys only on their official French website, but c’est la vie I guess.
The new top-notch, and seriously awesomely looking drones will cost no more than €200, that’s about $225, and they will be officially unveiled on July the 2nd at a London-based event. Until them, Parrot lets us drool over their videos, and press images.
Let’s start talking about their new addition, the Hydrofoil Drone – the most interesting of the bunch actually. Its build upon one of their Airborne models. If you want to use it on water, just clip it to the boat and voilà, you can wreak havoc at the local pool. Once you fire it up, it flips to its vertical position and the fun begins. Take a look just down below how easy it is.
It’s super easy to control using your smartphone of choice, and once you get the hang of it, you can reach speeds around 6mph and just lollygag around calm water for about 7 minutes or so. You can avoid obstacles, and change your course quite easily, because it has a front camera that streams directly to your smartphone.
Parrot’s Hydrofoil drone will cost about $190 making it one of the cheapest, and better looking drones on the market.
Even though the Hydrofoil drones look awesome, wait until you see these jumping babies!
I’m just going to call this now – sometime in the near future someone will strap a bomb or some kind of explosive to Diesel, or Buzz, and they will get these mind blastingly awesome toys banned.
Look at how these little cute minidrones jump! You can even scare the living hell out of your friends using its tiny built-in speaker.
Someone should definitely develop some sort of laser tag game using Parrot’s jumping minidrones!
Parrot Jumping Sumo
These two-wheeled 32-inch jumping remote-controlled cars will cost about $220 a pop.
Parrot has yet to announce an official release date for the US, but I wouldn’t be worried if I were you. The US is its main demographic target, and I’m 100 percent sure that shipping will be available for the states.
Michael Turner
