Lily

A drone with a camera that follows you. Throw it in the air.

4 followers

A drone with a camera that follows you. Throw it in the air.

4 followers

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Outdoors platforms

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Wondering how good it is at avoiding obsticals in the environment. Things like trees, chair lifts, wires. Anyone know if it has radar or something of the sort? The shots in the video were all in pretty open areas.

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11yr ago

Waffle

@paulprins "At this moment, the Lily Camera does not have any obstacle avoidance capabilities (cost and design choice). We have found that most outdoor activities do not need obstacle avoidance because Lily can follow the user's path. But again there are no guarantees that Lily will not hit anything while it is following you. If Lily is about to hit an object you can press the middle button on the tracking device and Lily will stop, hold its position, and continue to film you." (From the YouTube comments)

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11yr ago

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@paulprins @karenxcheng This looks great, but the lack of obstacle avoidance sounds very risky for their core use case shown in their video of action sports. Can't imagine someone being able to notice the Lily about to hit the ski lifts while snowboarding or otherwise. Seems like some kind of housing like this might be necessary in that case:

But also seems like a liability for the user/company. That's what I've decided in my 5 minutes thinking about their product with them probably considered all these issues in their years of development 😉 Looks great and is exciting

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11yr ago

@karenxcheng you're a super sleuth Karen - no one can take that away from you. Thanks for sharing that here. Disappointing it doesn't but their choice makes sense. As a former semi-pro freeskier this drone blows my mind.

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11yr ago

@benwtnb @paulprins @karenxcheng Do you know fleye ? They solved the housing: https://www.producthunt.com/tech...

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10yr ago

PumpMyGas by Optimist

This looks amazing! I can't wait to see what people do with it :D Not 100% sure about the 20minute battery life, but I guess it makes sense so you can make it so compact!

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11yr ago

Check out Gizmondo for the specifics but be careful!

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09...

Pros:

Great original product through the crowd source campaign where they focused on easy launch and water proofing

Cons:

No longer the same company and got bought out by Moto. The only similarity is the name and people should beware of being bought into origina

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9yr ago

How’s the noise level? Appropriate for an instructional video w/o over dubbing?

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8yr ago

I wonder how this compares to the AirDog.com drone. Would love to see a reviewer compare / test both!

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11yr ago

Inapptics

Super-cool idea! The next step should be live streaming! Think of Meerkat/Periscope-like functionality.

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11yr ago

tl;dr Marketing

Great Idea.. Everything looked great till I learned that it can't avoid obstacles. Will need to wait till someone figures that out.

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11yr ago

I remember falling for a fake joke release of something like this a couple years ago on April Fools. I was so excited. Thank you for making this real! Love the little eyes you gave it!

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11yr ago

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