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The Lily Drone Wants to Follow You Everywhere

Chris Gampat
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05/12/2015
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Last Updated on 05/12/2015 by Chris Gampat

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Last week, we got to play with what’s possibly the future of drones and selfies. It was only a matter of time until someone developed an autonomous drone that followed you around and shot photos and video of it. It’s called the Lily; and when we met with CEO Antoine Balaresque in Central Park, we didn’t exactly know what to expect. The photo above shows a prototype of what the Lily looks like. The Lily is a drone that follows you around while hovering and documenting your life as it happens. To do this, it connects to a little device that you can put in your pocket or in a watersealed watch type thing.

Antoine tells us that the Lily features the same camera as the GoPRO Hero 3; so you know that it’s quality stuff. It shoots 1080p at 60p or 120p at 720p. Alternatively, it can also shoot photos.

To get it going, you simply throw it up in the air and it will take off. To land, you can have it come to your hand or as soon as it hits a surface it will detect that and stop the propellers. Lily is also waterproof up to three feet; so if it drops into the water you shouldn’t be too worried. Lily can record audio but the device that you have on you can also record the audio.

A demo video of the Lily is after the jump. It will initially be available for $499, but will skyrocket up to $999 later on. So consider this a promo deal to get interest.

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Chris Gampat

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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