This is not a bird (but the gift you are going to do to the child in you)

A mechanical bird controlled from your smartphone, here is the Bionic Bird, a stealth drone that dream.

Watch out, you are about to discover that technology will fulfill one of your childhood dreams: to fly.

It is with a tinted English Marseille accent Edwin Van Ruymbeke presents his project on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo . The Bionic Bird is its name, is already funded at 582% while it is still 5 days before its closure.

It must be said that this idea is a family obsession, his father and grandfather were the inventors of the mechanical bird in 1969. At the time, an elastic system was beating wings of this toy that could and reproduce the movement of a bird to fly.

Forty-five years later, Edwin shows the evolution of the concept: a connected mechanical bird that you will be able to control from a companion application on your smartphone.

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Presented as a stealth drone, the Bionic Bird me most challenged by his vision on the medium / long term. Indeed, now featured on Indigogo model is that the first iteration towards a vision much more advanced.

Thus, if the first people to receive their crowdfundé the project Bionic Bird before Christmas, Edwin Van Ruymbeke hopes to offer a model with hovering from Spring 2016, as well as live streaming video on the horizon winter 2016.

And that is where the Bionic Bird become pretty awesome. For if we must now keep it in his field of vision to drive the the Bionic Bird could become a full drone with the addition of a camera and a livestream to see the world from new perspectives and have truly the feeling of flying.

Another novelty they hope to deliver before the end of 2016, the ability to control the bird bionic through gestures. A prototype video shows the possibility of sending fly away with an arm movement, like the remind oneself of a reverse movement. One imagines already ask his drone from hovering a few feet above you, with the mission to make selfies allegedly another mouth that just reaching out.

It was at this time that the child in me took control I WANT this!

After all, she should not be there technology to achieve our childhood dreams? So let me fly, send me into space, and then we'll talk about teleportation.