March 31, 2009, at 6:26 am 
This video proves many things:
1. No matter how smart you are, you should probably clean your house up a little before you YouTube your latest tech creation
2. One should probably build a smaller blimp in order to fit it into your line of view (go from 5.5 to 3.5 maybe?)
3. Call a friend to help you demo your creation. It’s hard to point your camera, narrate and control the blimp through your mobile device all at the same time.
4. Decorative in-home bushes are a blimp hazard (no matter how cool they look)
5. Android has really taken off with the super nerdy, all things geek demographic (as expected)
Don’t get me wrong. I see a ton of potential for this creation by “serveyorcorp”. There are a ton of great home use robots available on the market right now and I don’t see this trend fading away any time soon. Check out this amazing RC house mate called Rovio (WowWee toys) that emerged last Fall. It’s a web browser controlled home companion that enables you to see, speak to and manouver your entire home terrain. Rovio is even smart enough to go back to it’s docking station when his battery has started to dry up. I think Rovio is a pretty cool gadget for under $400 bucks. You can set up an online test drive on the website.
What this is all eludes to in my mind is that our mobile phones, once again will start to do things that we had not planned for. The screens we hold in our hand will become much more than a means of communication. Blah, blah, blah… you know what I’m saying. Here are some related links:
YARB site -> www.surveyor.com/YARB.html
Surveyor product info -> http://www.surveyor.com
Open source info -> http://code.google.com/p/srv1console/
