Top 5 Drones at CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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this top five video from CES 2016 is brought to you by massdrop our first top
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five drone of CES is the eang 184
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autonomous aerial vehicle I mean holy
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crap the thing can actually fit a passenger inside it flies way higher
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than your average consumer drone but much lower than a jetliner at about
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11,000 ft and can go 60 MPH for about 23
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minutes you don't need any previous flying experience you just tell it to
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take off or land through a mobile app and a computer takes care of the rest
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like a commercial airplane it has redundancies built in such as multiple
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power Delivery Systems and an Autoland feature if something goes wrong and
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encryption is built into the flight system to keep attackers from sabotaging
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your flight path it's connected to an e- hang Command Center that monitors every
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184 drone in Flight kind of like air traffic control and right now the
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biggest hurdle is approval from authorities like the FAA but ehang said
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it's uh working with government agencies to get this thing off the ground so to
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speak it'll cost probably somewhere between $2 200 and
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$300,000 so you can choose between this thing a house or going to medical school
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the parrot disco is not a quadcopter
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it's got a Sleek aesthetic and looks like an airplane with wings it's powered
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by a propeller and this combined with the wings uses less energy than trying
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to power up a bunch of spinning blades it adds up up to 45 minutes of total
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flight time and it is pretty darn fast capable of 50 mph flight it features
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automatic takeoff you just throw it and it starts flying meaning that there's no
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real learning curve and piloting is just a matter of telling it where you want it
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to go or turn to adjustments to make the
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thing stay airborne are handled automatically and it's expected to be
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available later this year our third drone continues our trend of getting
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smaller and smaller with the PowerUp FP
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V this is another winged design drone except that it's essentially a paper
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airplane that you can fly and we actually have covered powerups previous
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product before for more than 5 seconds
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and see where it's going it only weighs 2 ounces and is made from thick paper
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and powered by a pair of propellers you do have to fold it yourself which is
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either a pain or fun for the DIY included folks and it comes with a
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head-mounted display thing to turn piloting into a VR experience
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simply by sliding in your smartphone it's got an autopilot feature to keep
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the plane in the air and can go up to 20 mph with 10 hours of battery life
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PowerUp is offering a racing package that comes with six drones and
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head-mounted displays for a th000 bucks or you can get just one for $180 it's
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expected to be available in June the unique typhoon H was featured by Intel
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at CES why because it has an Intel real sense camera so Intel has been pushing
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real sense pretty heavily in laptops and other devices now it's in a drone the
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real sense cameras are completely separate from the main camera which
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shoots 4K video by the way and allows the typhoon to avoid objects and
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obstacles automatically without any input from the user unique and Intel are
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touting this as being more accurate than other forms of collision detection that
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we've already seen in drones the only issue is that at
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$77.99 at for the base model it's not exactly cheap and the version with real
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sense collision avoidance will cost more
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finally we've got the fly one of the strangest looking drones at the show as
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it looks like a floating white sphere or ball why well the moving parts are all
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enclosed in a plastic ball for safety for indoor use being the main focus it's
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very light as well only one pound though it does look heavier making it good for
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kids or someone who just doesn't want to worry too much about damaging their
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stuff in the event of a collision it only features 10 minutes of flight time
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but it's surprisingly Nimble given the shape as long as you're willing to pay
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