Once you've gotten good at cutting together banal, 6-second clips of your daily activities with Vine, the next step should be obvious: get a pet flying robot to follow you around and record everything you do.
That's one possible future for Always Innovating's MeCam, a pint-sized quadrocopter which hopes to one day become your flying robot familiar. The tiny drone responds to voice commands and streams video to nearby Android or iOS devices, but probably won't be sneaking through any bedroom windows, as its build quality seems to lack compared to GRASP Lab's ultra-manouverable quadrocopter swarms. That leaves it as a kind of personal sousveillance accessory akin to cyborg discrimination victim Steve Mann's skull-mounted camera — or...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929674/flying-mini-drone-could-be-your-future-lifecasting-pet-robot
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