- [Adult] Say hello to Tello,
the smallest drone that we have ever had.
Have you seen this thing yet, Lincoln?
- [Lincoln] Uh-uh.
- [Adult] Look how tiny that is!
- It's pretty heavy.
- This is from a company, that DJI,
you know DJI,
like the home of the best drones in the world.
They have the Phantom, they have the Mavic,
drones that we've had-
- Spark.
- We've probably bought seven or eight of them.
Yeah, they have the Spark.
This thing is actually smaller than the Spark.
And this is a $99 drone.
So a lot of you kids are always like,
"I want a drone! I want a drone!"
They're a lot of money,
and if you're not making YouTube videos
and making money off of YouTube videos,
maybe it doesn't make sense to spend that much money on one.
Well today, we're going to show you the $99 drone.
It doesn't take the best video ever, it's 720P,
but it takes great pictures and it's a fun one to have.
A lot of times Lincoln's had little helicopters or drones,
what happens to them though?
- They crash.
Well, they just stop working. Randomly.
- [Adult] Every, single time, right?
- Yup!
- [Adult] This thing is much more durable.
It does have wings on the side that protects it
from hitting things.
Has the camera in the front here,
and then you can put the battery on the back.
And it gives you about 20 minutes of runtime with the drone.
And it does some tricks, supposedly.
It's supposed to flip.
So we're going to go test it out.
Our friends at DJI sent us this for free.
Thank you DJI.
So let's go outside.
It has been a rainy day all day,
but the rain just cleared,
and I think it's time to test the Tello.
And say hello to Tello.
- Tello!
- Alright, we got our setup on my phone,
we got the Lincoln shot,
stepping on the grass from the drone.
- No, I'm making-
- [Adult] And we've got this shot.
- I'm making the water come up from the grass!
- [Adult] It rained a lot today.
So I'm going to try the first feature.
I push a button on here.
Hey, Lincoln!
- Nice!
You're scaring my puddle jumping!
- Okay, so whoa! Watch out Lincoln!
Oh there we go, now I'm figuring it out.
So it doesn't have controllers,
like on some of the other drones,
you have to use your fingers.
Alright, now I gotcha Lincoln.
Now you can do your jumping.
- Oh, my shoes are so muddy!
- [Adult] Are you ready to see something
you've never seen from any drone in your life?
The drone flip.
That's right.
Are you ready?
All that I have to do,
is swipe in my hand,
and this flips swipes that way.
It swipes that way!
- Whoa, it does back flips?
- [Adult] And that way!
Whoa, don't go that way.
Come back, come back.
So the cool thing about this,
all I'm doing on here is swiping my finger.
Whoa, yup, okay!
Coming that way.
I'm swiping my finger on the screen,
and it'll go that way.
But then what's cool is the drone re-centers
to its center frame.
Like, I have it pointed at Lincoln,
so even when I flip it, I'll go up this time.
It goes back to Lincoln
and it looks back at him.
That's really cool.
I've never seen a drone that's able to flip like that.
Let's see how high it can go.
(uplifting music)
This is a new one.
Record a short video while flying in a circle.
Okay, stay there Lincoln,
we're going to fly it in a circle
and see if it'll do it.
I'm not touching the controllers.
Look's like it's flying in a circle.
(inspirational music)
Okay, so that's the circle.
One thing you'll notice, it doesn't have the gimbal.
It's not like your DJI Mavic and the Phantom,
where it has that gimbal so it stays really, really stable.
Oh, and it only connects to what's on your phone.
So like right now, you can see Lincoln, there he is.
It only connects to your phone,
so you can only go a certain range.
Like with the Mavic, you can go really far away.
Look at that, how smart it is.
It's going away from Lincoln because it senses his hands.
- Come back!
- It has two different landing modes.
One of them is hand land.
So Lincoln, put your hand out.
I'm going to do hand land.
- Land on my hand!
- Okay.
It's coming to your hand.
Hey!
Look at that!
- It worked!
- [Adult] It worked!
- For $99 that's amazing!
- It's really cool.
The battery's a little short.
There are a few other things that we can do with it,
but you have to have the battery above 50%
to do some of the tricks.
Like you can have it just zoom and fly away from you.
You can have it bounce.
I don't know why you want it to bounce,
but it'll bounce.
- Well, why not?
- So we're going to try a lot of these things out,
and we're going to take it with us on trips,
so that Lincoln can try flying his own drone.
It's a little drone, it's a little safer.
If he ruins it, it's only $99,
rather than my $1200 camera that I take around.
- I still want to fly yours.
- He still wants to fly, you can fly mine sometimes.
You'll probably have just as likely of a chance
of wrecking it as I have, so.
- Yup!
(hip hop music)