FlyPhone tourism

Here at BUNGCO we have been marvelling at the potential of iPhones and related gizmos. They can determine position in space. They can take a movie of their surroundings. They can let you know where they are on a map.

With the Flyphone app, the iPhone is clipped into a device incorporating a pair of propellers, a fuel tank and a blimp body. The iPhone relays a video of what it sees, together with its position on a map and a depiction of its orientation in space. It is controlled remotely. Here at BUNGCO we have taken the FlyPhone out for aerial tours of the surrounding shacks and compounds, taking photos and movies out of shotgun reach of our neighbors. We easily delivered a tube of lip balm to a colleague stranded on a rooftop many yards away! Cell coverage is good here and so control of our Flyphones has not been an issue. But we have bigger plans, and prototypes in which the motors are powered by solar panels on the blimps.

With the FlyPhone Outreach, subscriptions will be sold to interested parties and a mass of FlyPhones released from international waters off Syria and North Korea. From the comfort of their homes, Flyphone flyers will pilot their craft inland, taking photos and video along the way. Who knows what wonders these travelers might encounter? It will be a one way trip for these brave iPhones, which will be loaded with Angry Birds, Talking Carl and other fun apps in appropriate regional languages, so that residents of these countries who recover fallen phones in working order will know that we care.

Blimps available in Cloud, Predator, Saucer, Thunderbird and WingPig.