Snapchat unveils Pixy selfie drone as latest photo-taking gadget

Camera firm Snap has unveiled an autonomous flying digital camera gadget which routinely captures pics and video which can then be shared to Snapchat.

Identified as Pixy, the tiny unit usually takes off and lands in the palm of a user’s hand and tracks the head and entire body of the proprietor in get to abide by and seize written content of them.

At first likely on sale in the US and France, the new camera comes with a established of pre-programmed flight strategies to get various varieties of shots and movies as it floats above the person.

Snap chief government Evan Spiegel known as Pixy a “pocket-sized, free-flying sidekick for adventures major and small”.

Talking for the duration of the tech firm’s yearly Snap Companion Summit, Mr Spiegel said: “There are no controllers. There’s no complicated established-up. Only pick a flight path and permit Pixy consider it from there.

“And it is aware of when and wherever to return, landing gently in the palm of your hand.”

The camera firm verified the Pixy would expense 230 dollars (£184), but did not expose if or when it will be released in the United kingdom.

In other places at the Summit, Snap said its Snapchat application was now utilised by more than 600 million men and women, which incorporates a lot more than 300 million day by day lively customers all around the world.

Mr Spiegel stated the app now attained more than 75% of these aged 13 to 34 in a lot more than 20 countries.

The app’s augmented actuality Lenses are, on regular, interacted with 6 billion situations every working day, he included.