Parrot Mini Drone & Jumping Sumo - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital we're here at the parrot booth
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and uh they have got something a little bit different on display we're used to
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seeing flying vehicles from them but this one is mostly on the ground except
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when it flies through the air so this is the Jumping Sumo it can do a bunch of
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really interesting stuff but of course it's right in the name the main functionality is the fact that it jumps
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it can either jump up to 80 cm in the air or up to about a meter in its long
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jump mode now in terms of construction can I actually borrow one of these for a
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minute I'm just going to Blindside everyone and steal all the things from
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it so they're using a highly customized
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lightweight construction because the idea was that if you're going to be having something jump 80 cm in the air
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and then bounce back down all the time you are going to have to have some
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extremely special tires on it and aside from having the power to move around and
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spin around and actually it can it can walk around in three different ways so
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it can either go in kicker mode which you can use this to grab things and
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knock things or it can go into sort of like a segue mode or it can go into
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jumping mode you are going to have to make sure that it is both strong and
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lightweight it has a qvga camera right
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there it connects to your phone or your
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tablet via uh 5G Wi-Fi so you should
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have pretty good range as well as uh well not as much inter ferences you'd
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have with 2.4g and in terms of the
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connectivity you can connect to either an iPad or an iOS device or an Android
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device now it does support both live streaming the video as well as recording
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the video and I'm pretty sure there's something else I'm supposed to say about
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it yeah it runs for about 20 minutes on battery and we don't have a price for it
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yet but we should expect this to be released sometime in
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2014 and now we're here with the AR
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drone well the mini drone I guess it's not the AR drone cuz there's no
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augmented reality this time around it still has one camera in addition to its
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barometer accelerometer and Gyro but
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this is a much smaller much more low power device than the original AR drone
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as you can clearly see from the size it can fly either with what is presumably a
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safety device so these wheels on either side so it's much more difficult to
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crash into anything or in a more naked
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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
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won't necessarily be enabled for video recording functionality it's just for
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stability so you can see they have a demo here with the mini drone actually
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flying back and forth in a pattern over some markers on a board below me you're
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looking at about 8 minutes of battery life and unlike the AR drone uh which
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required Wi-Fi and a tablet to control this one does require a tablet or a
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smartphone to control either iOS or Android but it uses Bluetooth 4.0 low
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power in order to enable it small size
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low power consumption and presumably low cost although they're not talking about
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pricing yet this has been our very first video from CES 2014 guys huge thanks to
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