At 249 grams, it falls perfectly under the weight limit that requires a license, and offers 8K resolution video capture through a dual lens setup placed on the top and bottom of the drone’s body. This captures everything that can be seen above and below the drone, but makes the drone invisible in your footage.
You can view all of this in real time through the Immersive Vision goggles, which allow you to look all around you as you fly the A1, and get a full 360-degree experience of whatever the drone can see.
A screen on the front of the goggles lets others get a glimpse at what you’re seeing too, and Antigravity says it will offer a whole host of creative tools that give you a tonne of options for editing your footage after.
The Antigravity grip is how you control the drone, you can simply point in the direction you want the drone to go to have it fly that way. And boy, is it responsive. With a flick of the wrist, I nearly crashed it into the safety netting during my impressive, if slightly disorientating, demo. For this drone noob, more practice is definitely required. —Verity Burns
Urevo’s Walking Pads Are a Lifestyle Health Solution
Urevo, makers of our favorite walking pad, debuted an entire portfolio solution at IFA that the company calls “3 x 8 Wellness.” Basically, your day is broken up into three 8-hour chunks, each of which can be maximized (health-wise, at least) with a different Urevo product. You can stay active while you’re at work for 8 hours by walking on a CyberPad. For the second chunk of time, which Urevo calls your Life phase, you might recover by wearing the company’s all-new compression and massage boots. Both of these will help you maximize your third chunk of time, which is sleep. You can control and track all of these activities and devices through the Urevo app.
Setting aside how depressing it is that we’re expected to spend fully one-third of our lives working at a desk, it is interesting that Urevo has branched out into more wellness devices besides exercise equipment. We fully expect the company to launch an LED mask next.—Adrienne So
RGB LED TVs Are Getting Smaller
Photograph: Verity Burns
RGB LED, RGB Mini LED, even Micro RGB TV … whatever you call it, the latest TV tech that was announced by numerous brands at CES has been very much the talk of IFA too, as it creeps closer to a more mainstream launch. In a behind-closed-doors demo, Sony showed us more of the impressive prototype that we got to see in Japan earlier this year. Once again, it showed off the huge proposed benefits—much higher peak brightness, a wider color gamut, reduced blooming, and improved viewing angles. We saw it up against W-OLED, QD-OLED, and Mini LED, and it certainly appeared to blow them out of the water.
