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This $50 Mini Quadrotor Drone Camera Will Follow You Around and Help You Take Better ‘Selfies’

GoPro-style headcams are all the rage right now to document everything from extreme sporting adventures to events like Republican National Convention (as TheBlaze’s Mike Opelka showed us last year). But these body-mounted cameras only show your perspective, what about if you wanted to be in the picture itself?

Always Innovating created the aptly named “MeCam,” which is described as a self-video nano copter that people can use to to essentially take better quality selfies (those photos people take of themselves where half their outstretched arm is in the picture as well). The videos from MeCam can then be uploaded and shared on various social platforms like YouTube and Facebook.

Always Innovating Introduces MeCam to Take Video of Yourself From a Hovering Camera

(Photo: Always Innovating)

“Today people capture and share their photos and videos using archaic methods and with mixed results,” Always Innovating’s website states. “The MeCam launches from the palm of a hand and hovers instantly. The MeCam streams video to an Android or iOS phone or tablet. Videos can then be easily shared on social media platforms. The MeCam doesn’t need any remote control: the user can control the device with voice commands or uses the follow-me feature.”

Always Innovating Introduces MeCam to Take Video of Yourself From a Hovering Camera

(Photo: Always Innovating)

See how it works:

SlashGear reported that the MeCam will only set you back $49.

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Comments (57)

  • justa_thought
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:45am

    PULL!!! Boom!!!

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:13pm

      Its not available and not $50. Something like this the Government would not allow to get into the hands of the public. I am waiting in line to buy several.

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  • Born2Run
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:24am

    Ridiculous.

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    • mzar1949
      Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:45pm

      What’s really ridiculous is all the people who are complaining about big Brother snooping on us citizens, And now they themselves can’t wait to go out and by one of these devices to do some snooping of their own. Get A Grip !!

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  • khandahar&jalalabad
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:24am

    It sounds like the singularity for Navi. All we need is for it to say LISTEN! every five seconds.

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  • Slipstick
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:33am

    Back in the 50′s, I remember a Batman/Detective Comics issue that had a floating eyeball-shaped device. Batman used it to spy on criminals. Once again, science fiction has become reality.

    Changing horses in midstream, the porn industry is going to jump all over this idea…

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    • Flashydave
      Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:24am

      Yea and I can also see a problem watching the neighbors when they leave the lights on too. Wonder how long it will be for good stereo sound?

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on January 26, 2013 at 5:14pm

      What worries me is how pedophiles and voyeurs can abuse these to spy. If I see one any where near a playground i will watch it and find out who’s running it and kick the **** out of them if they are not one of the kids parents. I know assault is illegal but they got to prove it was me. Our town (Aberdeen WA) has become a dumping ground for pedo’s because the paper refuses to publish sex offender notifications because they are afraid the sick perverts might get hurt and the prison here just dumps them off at the bus station when they are released so they can walk a block away to burger king to ogle the children. (I’ve had family who works at the prison point them out to me this town is over run with them.)

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  • SuperMax52
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:47am

    Have you ever read Fahrenhiet 451? The drones follow Montag giving TV viewers a “live manhunt” as they hunt down the “criminal”.

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  • NoMoMrNiceGuy
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:43am

    I am sending one to work with my wife !

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  • rjtaurus605
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:31am

    That is all we need, one more invasion of our privacy. so do these boneheads need to secure our permission if they film us and put it online? Is it legal to bring these in places of business?How close can these things get to me before they violate my personal space?What actions can I take if they do?

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:18am

    Do we have to yell “PULL” before blasting them out of the air?
    No here. I will give the remaining parts a decent burial.

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:17am

    Google Glass? They want us to run around with cameras attached to our eyeballs, linked up to search engines? They have lost their minds? Technology can and should be stopped?

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  • Rbell2915
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:27pm

    I think I’d use it more as a toy helicopter than a camara. Fascinating little things.

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    • PureFox
      Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:42pm

      photography would be too easy, if you could control it directly and see what it sees.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:11pm

    That thing follows the microchip implanted in your head!!!

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  • crackerone
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:13pm

    Have one of those follow Biden from his chair at a State dinner to the nearest adult diaper changing station in the White House.

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  • Bugleboy99
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:54pm

    Unfortunately you cannot stop ‘progress’ from happening. The American people will come to rue the day drones came into existence. Mark my words.

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  • PossumStu
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:40pm

    Civilian drones? Very cool. I can see this being used for the wrong reasons, but on the other hand, this technology would be great for filming government abuse as well. Just think of how much more careful police and government officials have to be when at any time, citizens could be filming and uploading their words and deeds to the internet for all to see. The vermin in the government don’t have a problem putting their subjects under surveillance. Maybe these little drones will even the playing field somewhat.

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  • m14guy
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:24pm

    MeCam meet MeShotgun. CZ712 Utility. Number 8 shot will be sufficient medicine I believe…

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  • jman-6
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:54pm

    Just what our narcciscist “me” culture needs! Jeeesh!

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:28pm

      This could be quite useful for coaching or self-coaching to pitch horseshoes, golf swing, baseball swing… , very useful indeed.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:45pm

    I’m extremely surprised that OSHA hasn’t required small cages around the blades to prevent injury to peoples faces and skin.

    I’m waiting for the first lawsuit against a Quad-copter manufacture after some kid gets his face chewed up by one of these.

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  • funny007
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:40pm

    I love these amazing quadrotors.
    http://bit.ly/VzUhy0

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:30pm

    Oh great, now when I go to Wal-Mart, I don’t only have to dodge the idiots who’ll run right into you but now I have to watch out that a damn helicopter doesn’t whack off one of my ears.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:26pm

    I’m surprised that the young today aren’t wearing those “Destination Truth” shoulder mounted cameras that record your face all the time.

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  • bigbear_awake
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:20pm

    Where to put #44
    Where, oh where — to put Obama’s picture.
    George Washington, our nation’s first president and leader of the American Revolution! 1.00 Dolar bill
    Abe Lincoln, honorable leader who pulled our nation through its darkest time! 5.00 bill
    Alexander Hamilton, founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury and leader of the constitutional convention! 10.00 bill
    Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory ” fought the British in New Orleans ! 20.00 bill
    Ulysses Grant, Union army general, led the North through the Civil War! 50.00 bill
    Ben Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist and leading author of the Constitution. 100.00 bill
    Finally, we have someone to put on the food stamp!!! bill
    I was eating breakfast with my 13-year-old granddaughter and I asked her,
    “What day is the 20th of February?”
    She said “It’s President’s Day!”
    She is a smart kid.
    I asked “What does President’s Day mean?”
    I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln… etc.
    She replied, “President’s Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House,
    if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment.”
    You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose…

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:19pm

    Not new. This has been kicking around the RC airplane hobby for some time now. The user interface is getting easier for people who don’t know how to fly RC helicopters and multi-rotors. Do a FPV search on youtube sometime.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:14pm

    So, this is what the Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me generation is coming to?

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:12pm

    I’m not sure this can be classified as progress……

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  • Stelex
    Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:10pm

    This is not going to end well for anyone. Common sense is a lost concept. Technology unleashed and unfettered. Most, yes most citizens are children at best. This is not going to end well, love you Ray, the Singularity is here, but its not as cheery as you predicted. You left out the human factor of greed and power in your presentation.

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