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if you're not interested in terrorizing your family friends neighbors and pets from the sky with a little flying drone how about hitting the ground with one of these the 160 dollar jumping sumo from parrot I'm Josh Goldberg Cena and the sumo is one of parrots mini drones that is entirely controlled with your smartphone or tablet you connect to it via Wi-Fi open parrots free flight 3 app for Android iOS and eventually Windows 8.1 and you get a first person view streamed from the camera in front from there you navigate around by sliding the on-screen stick forward and back and tilting your phone left or right to turn you can have the Wheels wide for stability or compact for tighter spaces then there's the jumping part where you can trigger this leg back here to send it straight up or forward about two and a half feet I know in and of itself that's not too exciting until you start setting up obstacles for it or taking advantage of actually programming it by setting up a road plan you can use the camera to take low res photos and if you plug in a small micro USB Drive you can record VGA video from it to you get up to 20 minutes of use from the included battery though depending on what you're doing with it it can be much shorter and it takes 90 minutes to fully charge the price though will probably be the bigger hurdle to jump you can read the full review on cnet.com but if you're looking for a different kind of drone and have the money it's certainly a fun way to kill some time I'm Josh Goldman and that's a look at parrot mini-drone jumping sumo