The Lily Camera Is a Drone That Flies Itself

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Despite the whipping spring winds, the prototype of the Lily Camera is hovering steadily in place above my head in New York’s Central Park. The Lily looks a lot like other drones you can buy now, but this one has a special trick. As its name suggests, it’s really a camera that just happens to fly. By itself

Developed for use by action sports enthusiasts — snowboarders, skateboarders, and the like — the Lily Camera lets you capture all of your best moves and stunts without needing someone else to pilot it.

To use the drone, you turn it on and it connects to a separate wrist-worn controller that doubles as a tracker. 

You tell the drone to take off by pressing the controller’s Take Off button, or toss it into the air to have it automatically start hovering.https://www.youtube.com/embed/a7MDmHqJvXc?feature=player_embedded

Follow the leader  The Lily Camera can then follow you around. I was genuinely impressed with how well the drone was able to keep up with me, despite my attempts to trick it by running in zigzag patterns. (If you don’t want the Lily Camera to follow you, you can have it hover and stay stationary while it records.) 

All of the video captured by the Lily Camera’s front-mounted 12-megapixel camera is also streamed to your smartphone, so you can see what it sees. The drone does a great job of stabilizing video. Although the wind was relatively stiff during my demo with the drone, images remained steady.

The makers of the Lily Camera also addressed the issue of being unable to capture ground-level audio from a drone: Audio is recorded by the tracker.

But the Lily Camera’s coolest feature is how it lands. When you press the Land button in the Lily tracker, the drone will automatically fly to you. You can then reach out your hand, gently tap the bot’s underside, and it will instantly power down. It’s like calling your falcon back to you, except you don’t need to feed it a mouse afterward.

The Lily Camera’s optimal range is between 10 and 30 feet from its tracking device. The drone can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour, so even if you’re a particularly fast skater, the Lily Camera shouldn’t have much trouble keeping up with you. 

If, for some reason, the Lily Camera gets too far from you, it will automatically enter hover mode and stay put until it reconnects with your tracker.

The Lily Camera also offers a long battery life, lasting up to 20 minutes in the air. And like most modern quads, the Lily will land itself if you try to run down its battery.

The Lily Camera is available to pre-order today for $499 atwww.lily.camera. The drone officially ships in February 2016 at a retail price of $999.

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The Little Girl From ‘Hook’ is All Grown Up!

Wow, Amber Scott!

You may remember Amber Scott as Robin Williams’ adorable daughter in the 1991 classic film Hook.

While she won our hearts back then, she doesn’t appear to be doing any major acting today. However she does have a publicly available headshot of herself all grown up, and she just happens to be GORGEOUS!

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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Amber graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. in 2006 as a member of the Delta Psi Epsilon sorority.
er co-star Dante Basco, also known as Rufio, leader of the Lost Boys, also has a pretty fun Instagram account. One person you might not remember from Hook, who you definitely know today…

That’s right! Gwyneth Paltrow played young Wendy in the series. You already know what she looks like today, so we’ll just tell you that yesterday, she celebrated her son Moses’ ninth birthday.

Oh Snap! 20 of the Most Perfectly Timed Images

Some things are just better when they are perfectly timed. For example a soft boiled egg, a kiss, a surprise birthday party (if you like surprises that is), an airplane landing, a catch in the end zone, the release of a so-so movie, a witticism, a home perm (do people still give themselves home perms?), a pairs ice skating routine, a light show, and of course the ubiquitous viral image. I mean, it’s not going to be very funny if we see the shot AFTER the bucket of water has fallen on the cat’s head, it’s only funny when we see the unsuspecting cat sitting directly under the bucket that has tumbled and is suspended in midair with a stream of glistening water sliding out of it.

Here are 20 of the most perfectly-timed Images making their way around the Internet.
# 1

There’s so much to enjoy about this shot. The look of horror on the young girls’ faces juxtaposed with the look of absolute self-satisfaction on the stingray’s face. And speaking of stingray, where do you suppose his is at the moment, hmmm? I think the middle girl knows.#2

• Is it just us or is this half girl half dog pretty f-ing hot? I mean this is truly man’s best friend, isn’t it? Now we wouldn’t necessarily want to make out with her/it, but we wouldn’t mind a little fetch followed by some light spooning and a few biscuits.

  #3

  
  Well, Jasper’s family and friends always call him a dickhead and now we know why. This has got to be one of the most perfectly timed images ever, and even though you know what it really is, every time you look you see “IT” all over again.

  #4

  
  And speaking of perfectly timed, this shot is pretty incredible? Let’s start with the obvious… the guy in the green shirt who’s getting clobbered by the bat is going to have to eat soft foods for awhile. The one guy is doing a horrible job at shielding the toddler in the little pink outfit, his first reaction is to clearly make sure he is out of the way. But the funniest part of this image is the little redheaded girl at the bottom who is so completely unaware of the danger she just barely escaped.
  
  #5
  
  What must Prince Charles have thought as he made his way down the line, pinning medals on soldiers, and was all of a sudden confronted with a, how shall we say, robust pair of knockers (that’s the technical term, right?). I mean you can’t NOT look at the knockers or touch the knockers or else how the hell are you gonna get the pin on there?

  #6

  
  Either the fifth runner up is a very sore loser (and yes, we don’t care if he got a medal or not, coming in fifth place means you are a loser) or he had a bad breakfast burrito. He could take a lesson from the sixth runner up, who looks positively delighted (and not nauseous) to have come in dead last.

  #7

  
  Imagine the nut. Be one with the nut. Don’t drop the nut. Doh! While some squirrels are terrorizing people in parks or breaking into bird feeders across the country, others  are watching The Matrix dozens of times and trying to understand the true nature of reality.

  #8

  
  Sure, this could be a perfectly timed photo, or maybe, juuuust maybe what we’re looking at here is a giant baby (if you don’t believe giant babies exist you’re completely naïve) that was teaching a “grown” man a lesson by squeezing his head with fingers covered in cheesy dust.

  #9

  
  Oh, God this is a good one. What makes us absolutely titter with delight is knowing without a doubt that every time a straight male golf enthusiast views it, their psyche gets the crap kicked out of it. You just don’t mess with the game of golf.

  #10

  
  Imagine David from the viral video “David After the Dentist” sitting in the backseat as well. As this kid screams his head off, David would keep asking, “Is this real life? I feel funny.” No sh*t David, that’s because we’re being attacked by donkeys.

  #11

  
  What’s disturbing these two soccer/football players so much you might be asking. Is it a speeding soccer ball coming right for their heads? Worse. It’s a GIANT BABY coming right for their heads with its pudgy little fingers covered in cheesy dust.

  #12

  
  Wouldn’t it be great if this was how this guy looked all the time? Imagine the holiday photos, the license photo, yearbook picture and mug shot. Imagine the fun you could have if he were your coworker, “Franz, what’s the matter you look upset?” “I think Franz wants o say something.” “God bless you in advance!”

  #13

  
  Someone likes cleaning himself VERY much. It’s hard to believe this cat didn’t know exactly what he was doing when this picture was being taken. Our guess is he’s signing up to Tinder and needed an image that would really make him stand out.

  #14

  
  We knew baked beans could go right through you, but water? Well, although it may be a little painful on Fido, it most likely would do a good job at cleaning out the ol’ pipes and help guard against the horror that is dog flatulence.

  #15

  
  In your face conspiracy theorists, we HAVE landed on the moon. Imagine if NASA experienced some major budgetary cutbacks and from now on this was how the USA was going to send people into space.

  #16

  
  Does it look like I’m playin’ bi*ch? Why is it that people always find little dogs so cute, and bigger, scrappier dogs get ignored or vilified? Clearly this “sweet little” pooch is ready to draw blood, and we find him or her absolutely terrifying, like something out of a nightmare.

  #17

  
  The only thing worse than the fact Jared is about to wipe out in an epic way, is the fact that Jared is about to wipe out in an epic way and, like a bonehead, isn’t wearing any sleeves. Oh, or helmet.

  #18

  
  They don’t call them Praying Mantises for nothing. What do you suppose the conversation was between these two? “Listen, if you don’t eat me I’d like, really appreciate it.” “And I’d really appreciate it if you’d tuck your arms in so I can fit you down my gullet in one swallow.”

  #19

  
  Kelly was just looking for someone who loved taking long walks, enjoyed nature, and laughed at all of her jokes, and Mr. Chestnut fit that bill. So what if he kicks her in bed and poops all over the house, they’re happy.

  #20

  
  It’s not that white people can’t dance. It’s that they shouldn’t. Not in public. And not in a group. Ever. If this had been a scene from “The Walking Dead,” we might have actually gotten into that show.

  #21

  
  Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, and for the first time in his life understood why he had collected all of those Ricky Martin posters. With that question finally cleared up the next one was to tell the wife and kids the truth or play it straight for the rest of his hard-boiled life?