Every person with a smartphone posts selfies. The word 'selfie' was first used back in 2002 and since then, it has been entered the world's largest dictionaries and major languages.
But the world is moving forward and selfies are already becoming obsolete. A new way so show yourself to everyone has a name, though not so popular yet, – "dronies" – pictures taken with a drone.
Drones have come a long way from killing machines in war zones to human helpers. Today, drones are being used for a variety of harmless tasks – from delivering packages and enhancing media coverage to conducting agricultural research and weather monitoring, recode. com writes.
And now this fast and miniature unmanned aircraft with video cameras are becoming the way to take airborne selfies. A number of social media services have already welcomed the use of drones to take airborne selfies or self-styled dronies with open arms, CNN writes.
Last month Twitter joined the game. At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in France, the social-media service garnered some free publicity using drones to create scenic Vine videos of employees with other festival attendees, CNN reports.
Twitter's not alone. Early in June, Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform created to raise money for creative projects, saw the entrance of two drones that were being designed solely for the purpose of taking drone-assisted selfies.
AirDog service introduced their dronie device as a "dog on a leash" which behaves like a dog on a tight leash – tracks your movements, follows you around and quickly shoots videos and snap pictures of you. With projects like these receiving funding that goes much beyond what the inventors expected, you can rest assured that we will soon be seeing dronies, dronies everywhere, experts from Gizmodo India say.
However, with drones opening up so many possibilities for interesting shoots it still remains to be seen whether dronies will become just another flash in the pan on the fast-twitch Web, or get a more enduring Web presence, CNN writes.
Today, the main obstacle to dronies is legislation that defines the use of drones and the air space it moves about. For example, in the United States, people have to mandatorily take an online course that will teach them to fly a drone in public space before becoming the kings of instagram with their airborne selfies.
Source: Voice of Russia
