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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with corsair Memory and western digital we're here at the parrot booth and they have got something a little bit different on display we're used to seeing flying vehicles from them but this one is mostly on the ground except when it flies through the air so this is the jumping sumo it can do a bunch of really interesting stuff but of course it's right in the name the main functionality is the fact that it jumps it can either jump up to 80 centimeters in the air or up to about a meter in its long jump mode now in terms of construction can I actually borrow one of these for a minute I'm just going to blindside everyone and steal all the things from it so they're using have the highly customized lightweight construction because the idea was that if you're going to be having something jump 80 centimeters in the air and then bounce back down all the time you're going to have to have some extremely special tires on it and aside from having the power to move around and spin around and actually it can it can walk around in three different ways so it can either go in kicker mode which you can use this to grab things and knock things or it can go into sort of like a Segway mode or it can go into jumping mode you are going to have to make sure that it is both strong and lightweight it has AQ VGA camera right there it connects to your phone or your tablet via 5g Wi-Fi so you should have pretty good range as well as well not as much interference as you'd have with 2.4 g and in terms of the connectivity you can connect to either an ipad or an iOS device or an Android device now it does support both live streaming the video as well as recording the video and I'm pretty sure there's something else I'm supposed to say about it yeah runs for about 20 minutes on battery and we don't have a price for it yet but we should expect this to be released at some time in 2014 and now we're here with the ar.drone well the mini drone I guess is not the ar.drone because there's no augmented reality this time around it still has one can in addition to its barometer accelerometer and gyro but this is a much smaller much more low power device than the original AR Drone as you can clearly see from the size it can fly either with what is presumably a safety device so these wheels on either side so it's much more difficult to crash into anything or in a more naked mode now I can give you guys a pretty close look at it here you can see the bottom there's a camera but this camera won't necessarily be enabled for video recording functionality it's just for stability so you can see they have a demo here with the mini drone actually flying back and forth in a pattern over some markers on a board below me you're looking at about eight minutes of battery life and unlike the AR drone which required Wi-Fi and a tablet to control this one does require a tablet or a smartphone to control either iOS or Android but it uses Bluetooth 4.0 low power in order to enable its small size low power consumption and presumably low cost although they're not talking about pricing yet this has been our very first video from CES 2014 guys huge thanks to our sponsors NCIX your source for great technology selection and service and corsair as well as Western Digital