Drones are everywhere at CES 2015, including various mentions and demos through the opening day keynote by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. And of these, that one that has captured everyone’s attention came at the end of the Intel presentation, when Krzanich brought out Christoph Kohstall and Jelena Jovanovic, the winners of the recent Intel “Make it Wearable” challenge, to have them demonstrate their Edison-powered Nixie wearable drone.
Its first public demonstration did not disappoint. Kohstall, sporting Nixie on his wrist like a bionic wristwatch, snapped the device off his arm and explained that it has no controller, but rather flies away with a toss, pauses to snap a photo, and then returns to the sender to be caught.
Kohstall, Jovanovic, and Krzanich then huddled together, flicked the small yellow drone across the stage, and watched it come back to them for a quick catch.
Wearable FLYING camera @intel keynote!! #CES2015 #flynixie https://t.co/r60BGkTK8H
— Todd Krieger (@tkrieg) January 7, 2015
A moment later, the image shot by the drone popped onto the stage’s large screen. Krzanich asked the crowd and keynote viewers to tweet it, resulting in the #flynixie hashtag to shortly climb high into the Twitter trending list.
Jelena and Christoph, founders of Nixie, with @intel CEO @bkrunner – taken with a Nixie during the keynote! #flynixie pic.twitter.com/BeV55dpjUv
— Nixie Labs (@flynixie) January 7, 2015
It’s a surprising and exciting demonstration of a concept that had caught eyes over the past few months, winning the $500,000 Intel challenge and capturing the imagination of many while still in conceptual stage.
The creators mentioned that they’ll continue refining the platform and will be releasing it to market in the future.
Watch the full CES 2015 Intel keynote here — skip to the 58-minute mark to watch the Nixie demo.
.@flynixie takes the first ever flying photo on stage at #CES2015 pic.twitter.com/cKD1PMllYX
— Intel (@intel) January 7, 2015
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