The drone camera is the newest hardware product from the maker of Snapchat, which previously released smart glasses known as Spectacles.
Snap, the maker of the Snapchat messaging app, has long positioned itself as a camera company. On Thursday, it unveiled a flying one. Called Pixy, the drone camera can help people take selfies without the aid of a selfie stick. Users hold the pocket-size camera in their palm and select a flight mode via a dial on the device’s body. The gadget then flies for a minute, taking photos and videos that it downloads to the user’s private Snapchat drive before landing back in the user’s palm. “It gives you a totally new perspective, actually allows you to have fun and go hang out with your family and create videos all together,” Evan Spiegel, Snap’s chief executive, said in an interview.
