Found Footage: iPhone 4 takes to the skies

Aside from the relative wisdom of rigging the phone and flying it near a working radio tower, the video is actually quite compelling -- there's also a behind-the-scenes clip showing the extended process of building and flying the rig.

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvo2g7RkVSo

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Aside from the relative wisdom of rigging the phone and flying it near a working radio tower, the video is actually quite compelling --...

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Galley

I found out from the YouTube comments that the song is "Traditional Drugs" by Hybrid Leisureland.

July 02 2010 at 8:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kapauldo

(posted to pikk) Cool or Lame? They tethered an iPhone to a bunch of balloons and recorded it [POLL] - http://www.pikk.com/71695

July 02 2010 at 8:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BlogD

Yep, this was pretty lame. Just taping it to a board and going up on a string... not gonna impress many people after seeing many others make sub-orbital camera shots. A few examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arena5/sets/72157606119049987/

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/818988-amateur-photographers-amazing-space-shots-using-a-balloon

http://www.sbszoo.com/bear/sable/sable3.htm

There are lots more, but the limit on URLs is 3, and you get the idea. Just do a Google search. So a few guys with images less impressive than any tourist in a tall building is a yawner, looks like kids putting baseball cards in their bicycle wheel spokes. Not even as good as amateurs, these days. Sorry, but the bar is raised way too high for these guys.

July 01 2010 at 9:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doc Rock

This is crazy but intriguing. as a model Helicopter flier this gives me the notion to mount my iPhone to the bottom of my Heli to get some cool ariels of Hawaii. One problem I still suck at flying my Heli. maybe I'll get on of the better fliers to allow me to strap my camera on his professional competition Heli.

awesome video

July 01 2010 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

simonhowes

Get a an Apple Mobile Me account, attach iPhone, start the recording and let the balloons fly off. Use "locate my iPhone" feature on Mobile Me to retrieve your phone.

Â£499 for a 16GB iPhone has to be cheaper than a digital video camera and a GPS tracking system to retrieve the balloon. GPS trackers can cost a couple of hundred pounds, and so does a semi decent small camera like a Flip.

July 01 2010 at 4:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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SIP

But that is exactly what a bloke in the UK does -- he puts together a digital camera, GPS tracker and some other electronics, and sets the balloon free. In fact, the last report on the BBC website said the balloon almost entered space or something before floating down back to earth.

The balloons are not tethered, just free-floating. Either this bloke has money to throw away; is downright stupid; or just has a lot of cojones risking loss of expensive equipment. I go for the latter.

Brits are in the lead when it comes to eccentricity!

July 01 2010 at 9:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aleks

what TF! did I just watch??? Might as well climb a building and film the ground from there, all jittery and #$@^! A 13 year old filmed the freaking stratosphere showing the freaking curvature of the EARTH! But you had to tether the phone to a spool so you wont lose it huh? .....F&^ing pu#&ies.......

July 01 2010 at 4:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

davjaxn

That is pretty darn cool. But next time if they may want to actually SHOW some footage from the iPhone. They showed like 15 seconds of the iPhone footage and the rest was of the dudes looking up at it. Weird.

July 01 2010 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply