The manufacturer Vivo has filed for patents for the creation of a smartphone that houses a mini-drone. The goal: to allow taking photos and filming from a height of a few meters.
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There is 20 years was born Futura, and 20 years ago, we weren’t talking about smartphones, drone… Today, these are two flagship products, one of the main attractions of which is not to make phone calls or to fly, but to film and take photos. On the side of Vivo, we decided to combine the two universe with a smartphone that hides a real quadcopter drone to take pictures at height.
Undoubtedly straight out of the imagination of a fan of James Bond or Mission Impossible, the sketches uploaded by LetsgoDigital show a drone which comes to hide on the upper edge of the smartphone, and which seems to be available with a simple pression. According to the patents, it therefore includes four propellers, three sensors infrared, two cameras and its own battery.
Two cameras, three infrared sensors
One of the cameras faces forward while the other faces up. The sensors infrared will avoid obstacles, and we imagine that all this is tiny, and therefore very fragile to fit into a smartphone. Even the smallest drone current is bigger than a smartphone …
Without forgetting that the use of a drone obliges to respect a regulation, and that it will undoubtedly be necessary to limit oneself to three or four meters in height to benefit from it. It is also not certain that these mini-propellers can bring it very high. What is certain is that we can already take selfies with ” dronies », Mini-drones designed to replace selfie sticks. For it to be directly integrated into a smartphone, maybe in 10 or 20 years …
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