Gadgetory

hey it's been popper here with The Verge I'm checking out DG is latest drone the Mavic the big deal with this one obviously is the size and weight it feels almost like an iPhone 7 plus I can not quite fit it into my pocket maybe if I was wearing my janko's today but it's definitely the smallest most portable drone DJI has ever made this thing is about 700 grams and this tiny remote is about half that you could fly with just the remote it gives you some telemetry information like your height your orientation can give you warnings if there's too much wind or if you've gone too far away you could also fly with just the phone using the DJI app or you can combine the two so that you have the stick controllers and the video feed from the drone itself this drone has a lot of the sensors that you find on the Phantom 4 so it has optical flow sensors on the bottom that allow it to sell land and to see if there's obstacles down there the optical flow sensors also give it the ability to judge changing height so if you're flying uphill it can even auto follow you uphill it has the sense and avoid package on the front so you can fly it comfortably knowing it won't crash as long as you're headed in a forward direction and it has all kinds of autonomous modes it can follow you it can orbit it can track a point of interest GGI also says it has some really fancy computer vision it has the same subject tracking where you can drag a box around somebody and it will understand that that is the subject can automatically follow it did you I says it also has gesture recognition although that wasn't working on this prototype unit but you can simply wave your hands if you want it to track you throw them up in a big Y if you want it to start filming and then put your hands up like a camera and it will automatically take a droney focusing on you and flying out did you guys says that this new unit will start shipping in a few weeks and will probably cost around a thousand bucks which is less than a brand new phantom fact it's less than the complete package if you get GoPros new karma drone with the camera now the drone is smaller but it has a 4k camera the image sensor is the same it just doesn't have quite as wide a field of view the remote control isn't quite as big and it doesn't have quite as many features if you want to customize your flying but even though it's half the size the Mavic is nearly as fast as the inspire 4 because 40 miles an hour in sport mode instead of 45 so what's really interesting is that over the last year the drone industry has gone in a new direction before it was making bigger more advance more powerful copters now people are trying to make them smaller and more portable more accessible I think was really interesting about the Mavic is that DGI has made what is probably the smallest and most portable of the high-end copters and they've done it without sacrificing any of the advanced features that you would get on their more expensive drones