{"id":143350,"date":"2022-07-31T23:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/review-hands-free-flight-with-eegsmarts-mind-controlled-udrone"},"modified":"2022-07-31T23:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:17:31","slug":"review-hands-free-flight-with-eegsmarts-mind-controlled-udrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/review-hands-free-flight-with-eegsmarts-mind-controlled-udrone","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hands-free flight with EEGSmart\u2019s mind-controlled UDrone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQo1xxKp-x8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019 \ud83d\ude00 What a fun mind controlled toy drone \ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How much more fun could drones be if you got fiddly hand controllers out of the way and flew them with your mind? That\u2019s the question EEGSmart poses with its UDrone mini-quad, which responds to brainwaves and head movements instead of thumbsticks. It\u2019s not perfect, but it does give a glimpse of a mind-controlled future.<\/p>\n<p>The Udrone itself is fairly unremarkable; it\u2019s a lightweight mini-quadcopter with 2-inch props, nice plastic bumpers to save it from damage when it bumps into a wall, and an 8-megapixel, 1080p-capable camera. You can fly it using your mobile phone, in which case it works like most similar small quads, but also has some smarts under its belt with face tracking, subject tracking and gesture recognition.<\/p>\n<p>It flies for six or seven minutes on a battery, which is about right for this size of thing. The camera isn\u2019t anything to write home about, but it streams video back to your phone in real time as long as you\u2019re within Wi-Fi range. So far, so ordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 \ud83d\ude00 What a fun mind controlled toy drone \ud83d\ude17 How much more fun could drones be if you got fiddly hand controllers out of the way and flew them with your mind? That\u2019s the question EEGSmart poses with its UDrone mini-quad, which responds to brainwaves and head movements instead of thumbsticks. It\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}