Parrot AR.Drone: Wifi Quadricopter for Augmented Reality

At first I took the video as a someone playing with video composition and spoofing a project, but after digging deeper and seeing the coverage at CES it appears to be at least a pretty solid prototype.  The company, Parrot, created a quadricopter that is controlled over WiFi by the iPhone’s accelerometers.  Additionally the quadricopter streams video back to the iPhone giving the user a view from the device.  The company also published a developer site with an open API for creating iPhone augmented reality games for the device.

It might be a long shot getting this product to the market, but at least they’ve put together a pretty impressive prototype.