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Re:Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts by blutack on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:22PM (#5828323)
It's a Parrot ArDrone quadrotor. The frame is made of foam which encloses the rotors and the motors automatically cut off if they sense the blades are obstructed.

Being hit by one is like being bumped with a bit of polystyrene.

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Re:Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts by CodeFoo on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:59PM (#5829213)
He was being humorous.

(HN is so pedantic)

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Re:Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts by nknighthb on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @08:04PM (#5829527)
> being bumped with a bit of polystyrene

Seven dead astronauts taught me to distrust intuition about foam.

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