Video: Nokia N900 Controls Real Helicopter
March 18th, 2010 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •
I’m almost 100% sure this video is fake, but I know the Nokia N900 can do a lot of crazy things when it is hacked. Here’s a video of a guy controlling a real helicopter using the Nokia N900′s accelerometer. Check it out.
Real or fake?
djoil on 18 March 2010:
haha was ist wenn er stolpert und das handy fallen lässt
Fake
nick on 18 March 2010:
Fake – you can see at 00:24 that he's lifting the phone up to “lift” the helicopter up – the n900 doesn't know how far off the ground it is (unless you use the accelerometer, but that has to be fast).
JaskaJ on 18 March 2010:
Real or fake?
Double facepalm.
Andy on 18 March 2010:
The man controlling it tilts the phone as if he's using the accelerometer to control direction, but when he tilts it left the helicopter floats to the right side. It is a fake!
John on 18 March 2010:
Well, they could have inverted the control system though! Looks pretty authentic to me.
nLL on 19 March 2010:
it is fake!
enrolled agent on 19 March 2010:
Definitely a fake. The response time between the man's hands and the helicopter is very slow. That should have crashed the helicopter already.
arempee on 22 March 2010:
i love my n900 but i'm gettin the HTC HD2 this wednesday, i had the nexus one to replace my n900 but it did not happen because i didnt really like the nexus one, what you guys think about the HTC HD2???
Mandi on 27 March 2010:
Okay, so this video is obviously fake. But I've seen it done with a toy helicopter. That's gotta count for something, right?
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ea exam on 28 March 2010:
Okay, so this video is obviously fake. But I've seen it done with a toy helicopter. That's gotta count for something, right?
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