The PilotView FPV 2400 (First Person Video) is a tiny camera that lets you take pictures out the front of your radio-controlled aircraft. You can climb right into the cockpit and fly, no license required!
(FPV 2400 virtual reality glasses)
The camera sends video back to these glasses; you can also use it in RC helicopters, cars and boats.
(PilotView FPV 2400 demonstration video)
Other writers have speculated that this is what Georgi LaForge has been doing all along... For only $549.
Take An Infinite Walk In Flexible Spaces
'The walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared...'- Ray Bradbury, 1951.
HP 3D Display Images Hover Above Device
'Instantly there appeared standing upon the disk... a lifesize and moving and stereoscopically perfect image...'- Edmond Hamilton, 1928.
LCD-based Smart Contact Lens Display
'You've got DreamTime technology in contact lenses? That's not available to the public!'- Niven and Barnes, 1992.
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Sky City's 220 Stories Are Go
'It rested among green parklands and... stood in total isolation, a glittering block of whites and flashing windows dotted with colors.'
Robo-Raven Flapping Wing Robot Bird
'When he had first built them, they had been crude indeed, flying mechanisms with little more than a reflex-response unit.'