FlyingLift gives camcorders a birds-eye view !

FlyingLift quadrocopter can carry camcorders weighing up to 500 g.

Pirate Eye monocular video glasses.

Hand-held controller displays flight information.

Backpackable receiver unit.

FlyingLift quadrocopter.

Pirate Eye monocular video glasses.

Sick of straining your arm to get that all-important above the crowd video angle? Here's a solution that will give you a true birds-eye view. Due to hit the market at the end of the year, FlyingLift is a remote controlled quadrocopter which can carry a conventional video camera of up too 500 grams in weight while beaming images back to the ground in real-time. The system consists of an electrically powered carbon fiber chopper, a backpack-mounted receiver unit, a hand-held controller and a set of video glasses which deliver what the camera sees to one eye while leaving the other eye free to follow the quadrocopter in flight.