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Lily, The First Throw And Go Flying Camera...

TC
Trisha (Chris' wife) Dearing
Jun 07, 2015
IPVMU Certified

Check out this strange hybrid dual camera/dvr/drone called Lily, which is launched just by throwing, and tracks your movements as it records.

Lily is waterproof, made with polycarbonate, in black, with brushed aluminium. You can take it one meter underwater and it will perform as expected but they said they did not recommend you to "spin the motors underwater. Lily is not a submarine." Its weight is 2.8 pounds (1.3 kg). There is a built-in Lithium-Ion battery. They had to strip away the ability to remove the battery pack to make the camera waterproof. You get 20 minutes of flight time. Expect two hours of charge time.

Resolution is 1080/60p. Early bird price $499.

Though security is not mentioned, it's not hard to imagine a couple possibilities, like escorting thru dangerous areas. Or after responding to an incident, LE could launch one to supplement body-worns. Maybe with a software tweak or two Lily could be made to bird-dog a suspect by honing in on their cell phone.

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Michael Miller
Jun 07, 2015

Not the best review of this product.

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Undisclosed #1
Jun 07, 2015
IPVMU Certified

Drone was clearly distracted by the sun-bathers...:)

JH
John Honovich
Jan 06, 2018
IPVM

I had not followed this but evidently, a lot has happened since:

Drone biz Lily Robotics takes $34m in pre-orders, ships nothing, shuts down, gets sued by San Francisco DA

The failed Lily drone is back as a boring version of itself

Evidently, their big promo video was mostly faked... 

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UI
Undisclosed Integrator #2
Jan 06, 2018

Fool me once, shame on you.

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