Snap released its Pixy drone on April 28 at its Snap Partner Summit. The pocket-sized drone can take off and land in the palm of your hand. The drone is available for purchase today at the drone’s website.

Developed for the less enthusiast market and regular users of Snapchat, Snap’s Pixy drone looks to be made out of plastic and is designed to take off and land in your hand. The yellow body and enclosed orange propellers match the company’s bright and flashy branding of other products Snap has created in the past.

Snap doesn’t want to call Pixy a drone, but if it walks (flies?) like one and looks like one, it’s a drone. Pixy doesn’t have any controller, it actually barely has any way to control it. That’s because the drone, cough cough, I mean flying camera, flies itself and you only use Snap’s Snapchat app to tell what to do.

Details of the Pixy drone first leaked via an FCC filing in the morning before Snap had a launch event early er in…

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Source: dronedj.com