Gadgetory

this is Dante Trotter with the verge of CES 2014 and we're taking a look at two new toys from parrot the first is the jumping sumo which is a little car that you could drive around that has some pretty incredible capabilities pretty self explanatory drive around and it's actually a pretty good time you can tilt it just like this to get it to drive you have a camera here QVGA best thing for me to do I think is swiping down just to get 180 degrees it turns on a dime it's pretty unbelievable it has two different wheels that are controlled independently of course as a driver scope and accelerometer and their help it keep balance there are a whole bunch of other little tricks they've added in here you can make it jump we've been playing with the jumping sumo a bit here at CES and the range has been pretty great parrot says it's rated for up to 160 feet in an open area but here in like a hotel with walls uses advanced Wi-Fi technology a o2 11ac as well as five gigahertz if you need it the battery life is expected to be about 20 minutes which is about as good as you expect for something that's small and it should be quite a bit cheaper than the AR Drone when it's finally available they say it should come out later this year the other new toy from parrot is a little mini drone that's the name of it and it's taking a technology that they're using an AR drone into this tiny little guy and he's kind of like a angry bee that you can control control quite accurately let's see if I can just get them to take off here oh its default mode it has wheels on it so you can just very slightly just wheel back and forth with it and even turn around a bit if you need to move your position before you take off but the fun really starts when you take off of course and in this mode it's just like the AR Drone ill hover if you just let go of the controls it uses gyroscopes and a whole host of other sensors ultrasonic there's a camera facing down to calculate the altitude there's a barometer and a whole bunch of other sensors to make sure it doesn't crash so I have to say it's crash proof but it is pretty easy to control we don't know when it's gonna be available but it does use Bluetooth 4.0 for communication they say has a range of about 160 feet if you're going in a straight line it's probably bit less than that indoors and it's just about six minutes of battery life that's the parrot mini-drone