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| Hot babes will drape themselves over you as you fly your Parrot AR Drone Image from Brookstone's AP Drone catalog page |
Continuing my series on budget holiday gift ideas for these trying economic times today I recommend the Parrot AR Drone. Sure, at nearly $300 there will be some killjoys -- like the sort that complained that the price of an airplane ticket to Australia knocked the Big Avocado out of the category as a budget vacation -- who will say this is a bit pricey to be a budget gift. My response to their Scroogery: flying video cameras!
The Parrot AR Drone is a quadcopter with both forward and downward looking cameras that is controlled via Wifi from an iPhone, iPad or Android device. It can be flown indoors and outdoors.
Below are a couple of videos about the Parrot AR Drone. In the first one a fellow unboxes the Parrot AR Drone and steps through a pretty good discussion of its features, sensors and means of control before taking a brief test flight with it.
The second video explains how to modify it to accommodate cheaper and longer lasting batteries (out of the box a fully charged battery only gives about 15 minutes of flight). They then also take it for a brief test flight.
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The AR drone is definitely a great gift idea and who ever receives it, will not be dissapointed :) But, if you think that the person you want to gift a great gadget, is not that flying oriented, you can opt for a different type of drone ;) Here is a suggestion you might find interesting, namely, the Parrot Mini Jumping Drone, and here is a great review of it: http://mydronelab.com/reviews/the-parrot-mini-drone-jumping-sumo.html
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