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The Selfie Bot is a Drone That Helps You Document Your Sad Existence

Chris Gampat
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04/01/2014
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Edit: we got an email from Orbotix. It is totally an April Fool’s Joke

This doesn’t seem like an April Fool’s Joke to us, but if it is then it’s a damned good one.

We received an email this morning for the Selfiebot by Orbotix. And essentially what it is is a small drone that takes selfies of you and transmits the images to your phone. In fact, it looks a little bit like a robot from the game Portal. The demonstration video for the product shows folks in their homes and in some of their favorite moments having a photo taken of them by the robot. Some folks are still in bed, some are at the gym, some are wandering a carnival in a lonely way with an ice cream cone. But they’re all showing off moments when folks do selfies.

And in every moment, the little drone flies around to take photos of the person. It even seems to be detecting emotions and great moments. If the technology is really that good, then this is truly something revolutionary. The drone seems to even have a built in flash and be able to stand up well to winds despite having a small propeller to make it into a hovercraft.

There is no official word on the camera specs or just how long the battery life will be considering that it is a connected product and hovering off the ground, but specs and details may be coming soon.

In the mean time, enjoy the product video after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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