Pixy: Snapchat’s photo drone replaces the selfie stick

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The selfie drone as a relationship savior

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Behind every big influencer, the partner lies in the sand trying to find the right photo angle. But that could be over soon. Snapchat has developed a selfie drone that takes videos and pictures on the fly. Why it is so much better than its human counterpart.

WAt any time, modern technology could free people from precarious jobs. Spouses and friends of influencers can look forward to a new invention of the video platform Snapchat.

The company behind the news service is launching a photo drone that will replace selfie sticks and influencer henchmen. The Pixy drone is bright yellow, weighs a cute 101 grams and fits in the palm of your hand. Pixy knows four trajectories with which she circles her photo object and photographs it from the air. A total of around 1000 photos fit on the memory, which can be posted directly to the Snapchat memories and edited there after they have been taken. Long before Instagram and TikTok, users could use Snapchat to send videos that disappear again after a short time.

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In contrast to the immobile smartphone camera and the unwieldy, limited human population, the photo world in the social networks is opening up completely new possibilities. A selfie while climbing a mountainside, for example, or while balancing on a rope at height. As the drone is only available in the US and France for now, we might be able to look forward to photos of the Eiffel Tower and the Grand Canyon first. The perfect view into the camera could lead to accidents, but prevent others and even save relationships.

Instagram boyfriends no longer have to crawl their knees in the sand to get their girlfriend’s perfect bikini shot in the Caribbean water, or lean daringly over the edge of the pool. Nobody has to climb on rickety chairs anymore to stage the avocado toast with poached eggs on the breakfast table from above. It would also be a thing of the past with crowding together for group photos. Maybe that alone would be worth the $249.99 investment that Pixy costs.

Because the drone offers another big advantage over nagging human photo assistants: you just have to stretch out your hand and it will come flying back to you.