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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so we're here in the parrot booth where they're showing off their latest bebop drone this thing is a whole other beast it makes the ar.drone 2.0 look like an absolute toy it's got 8 times the power on its CPU it's got a quad-core GPU it's got 8 gigs of on-board storage it's got a 14 megapixel 1080p camera it's got a 180 degree fisheye style lens but they're doing some special tomfoolery with the with the image to make sure that horizontal lines don't get distorted it has an array of sensors that again makes the ar.drone 2.0 look like kind of bad so it's got a vertical camera it's also got an ultrasonic sensor it's got a pressure sensor that takes over once the ultrasonic sensor loses its range and I think it's about eight meters high but no one's looking at me ultrasonic goes around 8 meters high correct okay oh okay sorry excuse me so it's the high speed camera and the ultrasonic sensor under about five meters and then going above that is the pressure sensor it is extremely lightweight it's very robust feeling the whole thing comes apart and this thing they are showing off some unbelievable video footage and all of their marketing materials for this bad boy thanks to the image stabilization that's available with it so looking at sort of the typical shaky camera versus what this guy can do is amazing and it's not just about the image quality either the stability of this thing in flight is unbelievable the demo that they're running here has this bizarre like surreal almost looking choreographed dance and they had something like eight or nine bee-bop's out there flying around in a little cage doing flipping over doing all kinds of crazy stuff this thing looks bananas so you'll get around I believe it's 200 meters on your smartphone 250 meter range on your smartphone or your tablet if you're controlling it directly because it still works with the same free flight app that we've seen before I'll buy same I mean significantly improved Oh or if you pick up their new controller you can go ahead and throw your phone or your tablet into that and you get full joystick controls like well really anyone who wants to have much finer a much finer degree of control over the drill would want to have but there's another benefit as well it actually comes with a wireless range extender so you can take that 250 meter range and extend it to two kilometers and while okay you're not going to necessarily get a perfect video feed if the thing is too freaking kilometres away flying around getting aerial footage but the good news is that the onboard camera will record correctly even if that feed is not necessarily correct now another cool thing is they're already talking about support for the oculus so you can act you can literally fly around in the air in virtual array in virtual reality with this device it comes with a couple of batteries but I guess it'd better at the price this bad boy is not cheap what does it run about $500 US $500 u.s. yeah but I definitely want one looking right at you guys both of you we got to try this out that pretty much does it for the bebop I guess I did miss that there's GPS so if you program a flight path that'll help it to return home and whoa I think my my next subject here has come in for a landing okay i'ma help you out so this is the rolling spider this is actually a prototype right now this this particular model of it is not yet released you can see it's actually got headlamps so this is obviously a much smaller more more you know kid-friendly toy friendly fun friendly drone very very robust so it can fly without its wheels like this or it can actually be equipped with large wheels that will not only protect the propellers but also allow you to land it roll it around along the ground take it off again and do all kinds of fun stuff with it the battery runs for about eight minutes and what's cool about this one is that it's got a lot of the same technologies as the larger drone so you still fly it with free flight 3.0 it's still got an ultrasonic sensor on the bottom as well as a bottom mounted camera that it uses for stability in order to keep it from drifting all over the place which can also take snapshots but I wish I could tell you what the other things that are cool about it are but parent tell me so by the time this comes out later this year they're saying there are some secrets that will make it even cooler than it already is so I think that's pretty much it for drones for us here at parent I do want to do a quick shout oh okay okay they apparently they're gonna bombard me with this thing oh this is the jumping sumo and this one right here is actually a prototype now we showed this before the first time they demoed it but the difference now is that aside from being super lightweight super robust it's got a camera on the front so you can spin it around in circles drive around on your furniture all that kind of stuff now it has some ruggedness improvements so the wheels are now they now have almost like claws on them as they roll forward and they have added a spine to the back that they're saying allows it to climb even stairs so it actually will be able to keep from tipping backwards over on itself and climb up stairs so looking forward to playing around with this one as well all right now I think we're done with the with the drones here at the parrot booth guys I do want to thank our sponsors so first up is phantom blast these guys make darn awesome screen protectors they're super clear they're made of Gorilla Glass they're scratch resistant they go on with no bubbles it is pretty much impossible to get a bubble under it as well as HyperX they've got a great YouTube channel over at youtube.com slash HyperX they've got a lot of great gaming content you're gonna find links for both of 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