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Fleye your personal drone Image credit: www.gofleye.com

When we speak of drones, the first image that comes to our mind are wide winged unmanned aircrafts that are mostly on military duty or probably the quad copters, which are shooting videos of volcanoes for us. Either ways, you neither would these drones fly in your house nor would you risk them in attempts to do so. But Belgium based Fleye could be the personal drone that we have all been waiting for.

To begin with, Fleye looks nothing like a fiery drone. Rather, it follows a WALL-E approach to drones and looks more docile than a lamb. But do not let this soft exterior dismiss the strengths of this drone.

Under the basket like exterior, lies a powerful single propeller that provides flight to the device and a SONAR system at the bottom to help it gauge its distance from the ground. A 5 MP HD camera on the head allows the drone to take photos or videos at 1080p resolution and a 512MB RAM powered dual core on board computer lets the drone fly autonomously to its missions and back.

Users can control this drone using their smartphone and a simple app that lets them chose different shooting modes for the drone. Ask the drone to take a selfie for you or a panoramic shot of the place you are in, it can hover above and keep an eye for you or simply pair a Wi-Fi gaming controller to the device and take matters in your own hands.

Assembling a Fleye. credit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gofleye/fleye-your-personal-flying-robot

Fleye is currently raising funding on KickStarter so that they can make this drone a reality in the coming one year and start shipping them to users like you and me. Well, the production won't be as crude as in this GIF, but if you participate now, you can get a significant discount on the retail price when the product is ready to ship around September of 2016, If you would like to know more about the campaign simply visit the link here.

If you have doubts about this, do watch this video below and let's see if that changes your view.

Let us know what you think of this drone and what improvements/ personalizations would you like to see in it.