CES 2018: Intel launches Shooting Star Mini drones

Lighting up the skies just like fire flies (but virtual ones) sounds exciting, doesn’t it? This CES 2018 saw Intel introduce a new version of drones called ‘Shooting Star Mini’. The brand had debuted at the halftime show at the last Superbowl with its drone-based light shows, seems to have now added a lot more to the latest device.

Intel launched their latest drone while delivering the keynote with a light show that lit the arena and gave the effect of the tiny drones flying in 3D space. The Shooting Star Mini is tiny and absolutely safe to fly indoors. They can also locate themselves in space without the need of GPS. Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel said, “This is not the type of drone you can buy in the store.”

The only catch while purchasing this device is, you simply can’t buy just one. You’ll have to buy numerous pieces to make sense out of it when they are lit up in the sky.

 Even though these little drones seem like in-house drone toys, that company has made them aiming at using these for light shows. The user can pre-program a routine into the system and then set a swarm of them out into the air rather than control each individually. A single pilot can fly up to 100 of them at once.