Snapchat unveils Pixy selfie drone as latest photo-taking gadget

Digicam organization Snap has unveiled an autonomous traveling digital camera machine which mechanically captures shots and online video which can then be shared to Snapchat.

Identified as Pixy, the small system takes off and lands in the palm of a user’s hand and tracks the head and body of the owner in purchase to abide by and capture material of them.

At first going on sale in the US and France, the new digicam arrives with a set of pre-programmed flight designs to acquire diverse sorts of photos and films as it floats previously mentioned the consumer.

Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel referred to as Pixy a “pocket-sized, free-flying sidekick for adventures large and small”.

Speaking during the tech firm’s annual Snap Partner Summit, Mr Spiegel mentioned: “There are no controllers. There’s no complicated established-up. Simply just decide on a flight route and permit Pixy just take it from there.

“And it is familiar with when and in which to return, landing carefully in the palm of your hand.”

The camera company confirmed the Pixy would price 230 pounds (£184), but did not expose if or when it will be launched in the United kingdom.

Somewhere else at the Summit, Snap claimed its Snapchat app was now applied by more than 600 million persons, which features extra than 300 million day-to-day lively buyers about the entire world.

Mr Spiegel explained the application now arrived at far more than 75% of these aged 13 to 34 in extra than 20 international locations.

The app’s augmented truth Lenses are, on average, interacted with six billion instances each individual day, he included.