AR_Drone_FlyingThe Parrot AR Drone is doubtless one the most exciting products for the iPhone/iPod touch announced this week. The quadricopter drone, under development by the French company Parrot located in Paris, is presented as new gaming experience based on the Apple products. They built a light quadricopter controlled remotely via Wi-Fi and piloted with the iPhone/iPod Touch accelerometer. Additionally, small but neat features have been added such as the autopilot enabling a handy piloting experience.

Limited number of units will be available this February for game developers. An AR Drone development kit will extend the possiblities of the drone with augmented reality games and applications. Two built-in cameras encoding straight to the screen of your iPod/iPhone enable a real time view of your in-air drone environment.