Monday, March 19, 2012

People Flying, Superhero Style, Over New York City - Video

By Nicholas Song

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/video-people-flying-superhero-style-over-new-york-city

New York Finally Gets Its Real-Life Superheroes

4 comments:

Ben said...

That is so weird but so cool... that is good marketing technique too.

sergio said...

Even though it was just for advertising a movie, the 'people' flying gained a lot of fame there were many other things that it did. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/video_flying_people_in_new_york_Cz39aNMcuRqbzNQZdK33OO said that the 'flying people' encouraged people to take helicopter rides. http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/01/30/chronicle-viral-stunt-takes-flight-in-manhattan-video/ said that one of the three people-shaped flying devices fell into the hudson river and the harbor patrol had to get it.

Jameson said...

That is amazing! Throughout the whole video, I was wondering how they got the RC to turn while still imitating human movements. Great marketing technique too!

Gwen said...

This is a really interesting article! I never would have guessed that it was to promote a movie, because there is nothing marketing-looking about them! I think that the company could have spent their money more efficiently, but this is still really cool! I would have thought that you couldn't do that with remote control people because it would be illegal, but I guess you can! It would be cool if people started building things other than people that would fly in skies all around the country! Like a pterodactyl, for instance... or would that cause mass panic?