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Digital we're here at the parrot booth
and uh they have got something a little bit different on display we're used to
seeing flying vehicles from them but this one is mostly on the ground except
when it flies through the air so this is the Jumping Sumo it can do a bunch of
really interesting stuff but of course it's right in the name the main functionality is the fact that it jumps
it can either jump up to 80 cm in the air or up to about a meter in its long
jump mode now in terms of construction can I actually borrow one of these for a
minute I'm just going to Blindside everyone and steal all the things from
it so they're using a highly customized
lightweight construction because the idea was that if you're going to be having something jump 80 cm in the air
and then bounce back down all the time you are going to have to have some
extremely special tires on it and aside from having the power to move around and
spin around and actually it can it can walk around in three different ways so
it can either go in kicker mode which you can use this to grab things and
knock things or it can go into sort of like a segue mode or it can go into
jumping mode you are going to have to make sure that it is both strong and
lightweight it has a qvga camera right
there it connects to your phone or your
tablet via uh 5G Wi-Fi so you should
have pretty good range as well as uh well not as much inter ferences you'd
have with 2.4g and in terms of the
connectivity you can connect to either an iPad or an iOS device or an Android
device now it does support both live streaming the video as well as recording
the video and I'm pretty sure there's something else I'm supposed to say about
it yeah it runs for about 20 minutes on battery and we don't have a price for it
yet but we should expect this to be released sometime in
2014 and now we're here with the AR
drone well the mini drone I guess it's not the AR drone cuz there's no
augmented reality this time around it still has one camera in addition to its
barometer accelerometer and Gyro but
this is a much smaller much more low power device than the original AR drone
as you can clearly see from the size it can fly either with what is presumably a
safety device so these wheels on either side so it's much more difficult to
crash into anything or in a more naked
mode now I can give you guys a pretty close look at it here you can see the bottom there's a camera but this camera
won't necessarily be enabled for video recording functionality it's just for
stability so you can see they have a demo here with the mini drone actually
flying back and forth in a pattern over some markers on a board below me you're
looking at about 8 minutes of battery life and unlike the AR drone uh which
required Wi-Fi and a tablet to control this one does require a tablet or a
smartphone to control either iOS or Android but it uses Bluetooth 4.0 low
power in order to enable it small size
low power consumption and presumably low cost although they're not talking about
pricing yet this has been our very first video from CES 2014 guys huge thanks to
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