The Selfie Drone That Never Was

Taking a photo with a drone can be pretty hard. I mean, trying to fly these can end up with them crashing to the concrete.

That's why the Torquing Group designed the Zano - a drone that tracks you doing random things.

Zano films you by following your smartphone. So it has a second purpose - if you lose your phone outside the house, just look up at the sky and look where the drone is hovering.

When you do activities outside like biking, rock-climbing or just chilling at the beach, the drone will use its GPS and pressure sensor to navigate its way to you and snap a pic or two.

Everyone loved it. Kickstarter ate it up and Zano got 2.3 million euros for it. And then issues started to appear.

They couldn't meet their stretch goals. The factory in China creating the parts was late. The drones that did ship crashed into walls or took awful photos. Then they disappeared and filed for bankrupcy. Forever.

Zano was gone.

Kickstarter is a really good idea. Many people love to fund projects, and much of the time the backers get their product.

Once I funded a Kickstarter project too. I shelled out around $25 for the project and guess what? It never came.

Kickstarter needs to force their projects to be more accountable. Many backers of the Zano never got their refund.

What do you think? Would you fund a Kickstarter project after hearing about this? What do you think about the Zano?

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