DJI’s new drone speaker lets cops yell at you from the sky

DJI’s caller drone accessory is designed to guarantee nationalist information and exigency officials are heard large and wide — and I mean really loud. Its enterprise-focused Zenmuse V1 speaker tin broadcast the dependable of someone’s dependable astatine up to 127 decibels astatine 1 meter, a fig DJI says is “on par with the dependable level of a pitchy taking off.”

The speaker, which tin beryllium mounted connected DJI’s endeavor Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK drones, tin broadcast dependable astatine up to 500 meters. To transmit a message, users tin marque a recording, usage text-to-speech, oregon upload an audio record wrong the DJI Pilot 2 app.

DJI says the talker is utile for nationalist safety, exigency rescue, and different applications, but the video shared by the institution besides suggests it could beryllium utilized for security. One country shows the drone blaring a connection supra a engaged road, saying: “No parking. Please thrust away.”

In summation to a speaker, DJI revealed a Zenmuse S1 spotlight that tin beryllium mounted connected the Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK drones on with it. The spotlight features thing called Laser Excited Phosphor (LEP) exertion “for enhanced airy penetration.” It offers low-beam and high-beam airy modes, and tin besides alteration some astatine the aforesaid clip for a maximum reflection region of up to 500 meters.

DJI inactive hasn’t released the pricing oregon availability of the caller accessories yet, but the aboriginal of its products successful the US remains successful question, as it inactive faces a imaginable ban.