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DJI Spark Nest 3.0

£515 / dji.com £279 with installation / nest.com

The Spark is the most user-friendly drone for beginner pilots. The Nest 3.0 is not a dramatic reinvention, but it didn’t need
Don’t want to use a clunky controller to navigate? Use your to be: this is still the best-looking and most rewarding smart
smartphone instead, or even just wave your orders at it via thermostat on the market. Impressively, and slightly scarily,
gesture controls. Plus, it’s extremely diddy and will easily fit Nest learns your habits – when you’re in the house, when
in a backpack. True, its 15-minute fly time is frustratingly short you’re likely to need a lot of hot water and so on – so it can
and the gesture system needs some fine tuning, but you’ll be control the boiler to save energy and keep that shower nice
having so much fun taking aerial shots that you’ll soon forget and toasty. That, paired with a nicely designed app, is enough
these forgivable flaws. Just make sure to buy a spare battery. to put the third-gen Nest ahead of its competition.
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inner’s drone, the Spark has flown down Our favourite thermostat cranks up the heat up on its
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HOT DJI Mavic Pro Netatmo Welcome
2 2 £999 / dji.com 2 £159 / netatmo.com
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Despite the tiny proportions, DJI hasn’t had to
capability, which works well once it’s got to
make any sacrifices for the Mavic Pro. In fact, Netatmo’s smartcam has face recognition
it’s got more tech packed inside it than the know you, and the usual motion and noise
Phantom 4 – and the foldable arms and detection is easy to control. We like the way
compact controller add to its portability. individual profiles can be adjusted.
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The Mavic Pro is the ultimate hobbyist drone Slick and hu
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3 DJI Phantom 4 3 Hive Active Heatin
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£249 with installation / hivehome.com
£845 / dji.com
The autonomous modes make this a fine
choice for anyone looking to make their first Hive is simple enough for anyone to use and
powerful enough to be truly useful, with
flight as a drone pilot. That doesn’t mean features such as geolocation and holiday
it’s solely for beginners, though – pros will mode. For a family-friendly introduction
appreciate the extra tech too. to the smart home, it’s a solid choice.
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A quadcopter that anyone can fly This smart thermostat is hot, hot, hot
4 4 Yuneec Typhoon H BARGAIN 4 Philips Hue Starter Kit
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from £59 (white) / meethue.com
£999 / yuneec.com
The Typhoon H is a fantastic hexacopter
that’s let down only by slow charging. Become an indoor god with the smartest
way of lighting up your home remotely.
5 5 GoPro Karma BARGAIN 5 Amazon Echo Dot
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£50 / amazon.co.uk
£1200 / opro.com
A simple all-in-one drone system for GoPro
the Dot is a better buy than the full-size Echo.
fans, but it’s still flying in DJI’s slipstream. Shame about the poor-quality speaker, but
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