Cardnetics, maker of the internet-famous Cardapult, recently reviled their latest prototype that fires pennies across the room. This brings back memories of school when would figure out how to fashion any type of shooting device out of rubber bands, mechanical pencils, and paperclips. They’re selling prototype cards for $8 a piece.
via Ideas are Awesome & The Daily What & Make
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.
