Gadgetory

so here we are right at the entrance to the drone zone at CES behind me you see booths for unique and DGI and these are probably the only two companies I can say with confidence will actually be around next year take off we went to check out the Motordrome which was advertised as a very expensive piece of military-grade equipment turned out to be an empty plastic shell a prop increasingly it feels like drones are used to signify high technology when really they're just cheap toys we're going to take in a walk around the drone zone and show you some of what we found this year so here we are with the e hang 180 for this one the award for best vapor where last year at CES and once again it is the hit of the show tracking lots of attention and not flying at all it's easy to get confused with drones about what's technology and what's a toy the stuff behind me is definitely going to sell well but it hasn't made any real improvements in the way drones operate behind us there's a lot of competitors we're seeing but they're in a much smaller platform right now but you see them they look like they have a really good product and it looks cool it has great features but then that you're later they're going yeah and you don't see him and do they change names and they get bought up I don't know like that it looks cool but I mean if you're really going to get into this market you know you got to compete with us and you got to compete with DJI this is the power vision booth I was actually supposed to swim in a giant tank full of water with a mermaid and some underwater drums the whole thing collapsed and soaked this booth which is kind of a metaphor for where I think the industry is headed the slogan here is change the fishing world because we all know there's nothing fish are more attracted to than a loud angry machine with very bright lights so I'm here with the flying magic air cleaner it's a parrot bebop drone and then on top it's got a nifty little velcro mount and three rings of negatively charged ion particulate cleaners sure to follow the dust and pollen out of your room so like what's the average age of people who are buying this what we found through some customer research that we're about 27 years old which means that we have people that are going down and not worried about buying it at Target Toys R Us or Walmart you're walking out with a great consumer electronics package but with a drone that they can actually afford and then play well right so full-grown men going to the toy that's me right that's what we do the drones on STS is getting bigger every year but it's hard to believe a lot of these companies will still be flying in a year's time the line between toy and technology is increasingly hard to distinguish still gotta admit it's pretty fun get that one yeah right