And it was going so well.
In a report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BBC correspondent Jen Copestake was showing viewers a prototype drone being billed as “world’s safest drone” for its concealed propellers–allowing people to interact with the device as it flies.
And that’s just what Copestake did, sending the drone spinning out of control and crashing to the floor. “Is it broken?” she asks a rep from the company that made the drone, Belgian startup Fleye, who confirmed yup, it’s broken.
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“This did have the benefit though of demonstrating the drone’s safe design and enclosed propeller,” Copestake said later, “which I wasn’t afraid was going to hurt me.”