The Hover Camera is created by Chinese firm Zero Zero Robotics. The drone can be neatly folded and follows you around for the ultimate selfie. It merely weighs 238 grams, so it does not have to be registered by the FAA.
(Hover Camera)
I love these crazy flying drone selfie cameras. They were imagined by sf author Karen Traviss a decade ago in her 2004 novel City of Pearl.
He set his camera to follow him, and it hovered behind him like a large tame bee.
"Tight mid-shot and pull out on but behind me," he told it. He checked the shot on his handheld screen and moved a few meters to the right. That was better.
(Read more about Karen Traviss' bee cam)
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