The Spy Kite is a kite that is unique for one interesting fact – it has an onboard remote controlled digital camera. The theory is that you fly the kite, and when you press a button on the kite's handle it takes a picture. Once you get the kite back down to earth (assuming you are a better kite flyer than I am on some days and actually get it off the ground ), you pull the camera off and hook it to a USB port on a standard computer for photo downloading.
The Spy Kite is designed like a delta wing kite (okay, I can fly this kind most of the time), and features fiberglass and ripstop material. The kite has a limit of 80 feet in the air, no doubt in order to accommodate the range of the wireless remote built in to the handle.
For $57 you get the Spy Kite, remote, and the camera, so if it works it would be a pretty good deal. And if you can't get it off the ground, I would assume you could mount the camera somewhere and still take pictures remotely. Or at the very least grab some good pictures of a kite being dragged across the ground, all from the kite's perspective.
Given the price, you should not expect the best picture quality nor a large picture capacity. However, you probably would not want to strap a digital Nikon to a small kite in the first place, so it all makes sense, and could potentially be a lot of fun for the cost.
You can find the Spy Kite at Gadgetshop.
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