Star Wars fighting drones hitting the air

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What’s your expectation for drones? Three “Star Wars” devices are combining drones and online games together.

Propel, a drone manufacturer, is planning to sell three models based on the original movies. They are the X-wing Starfighter made popular by Luke Skywalker, the Imperial TIE fighter he battled and the Speeder Bike that zoomed through the forests of Endor.

Luke Skywalker, a Star Wars character portrayed by Mark Hamill. /AFP Photo

The 179-US-dollar drones fly up to 35 miles an hour and can make corkscrew turns. The remote control plays the John Williams score, and can hold a smartphone to run a linked app. Up to twelve can battle each other.

“One of the biggest challenges with this product is that people see it as a toy,” said Darren Matloff, CEO of Propel. “It is anything but a toy.”

“(Drone) it is a piece of very high technology,” he added. “Essentially, these drones are flying computers.”

Propel CEO Darren Matloff demonstrates the company’s new “Star Wars” Darth Vader drone during a media preview, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. /AP Photo

Matloff told AFP that the company was working on drones that could race and battle when it got the “Star Wars” license from Disney.

“We saw drone-racing as the next big thing,” said Matloff, claiming that battling is more exciting than racing.

Shooting opponent with drones can bring users to higher levels of excitement, he added.

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Source(s): AP