Lot Amorós, an artist along with two engineers, namely Cristina Navarro and Alexandre Oliver were winning the Next Things Award 2013 for having created a flying (drone) phone.
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Flone, the flying (drone) phone. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1sSNy2P) |
Dubbed Flone, this device has `H` shaped and act as fuselage that allows smaprtphone can fly like a flight instrument. Flone claimed to be able to fly up to 20 meters, and has the ability remotely to take photos and record video from the top.
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Lot Amorós and Cristina Navarro with Flone. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/UqeNW3) |
Interesting Flone features while on the flight is the smartphone can be controlled remotely by other smartphones using the Android application via a Bluetooth wireless connection. "What we have done is to change the concept that little drone is not something that can only be owned by people who have a lot of money," said Oliver.
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