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DISRUPTIONS Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture

A drone outfitted with a camera. A number of new product services have appeared that try to help people take better pictures and videos of themselves with the aid of a drone. JANET S.CARTER /THE FREE PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATEDPRESS

By NICK BILTON June 22, 2014

If you present people with a new, exciting technology, chances are they will use it to take photographs of themselves.

Take drones, those hovering, helicopterlike flying devices that the military has used for years and that are slowly, in miniaturized form, finding their way into the consumer world.

Over the last few years, drones have been finding jobs in industry. They are used for gathering news, checking crops on farms, as well as photographing houses for real estate agents, and — at least in the imaginations of some Amazon executives — drones will one day deliver packages to consumers who just can’t wait for the UPS truck.

Yet mainstream users have had trouble figuring out where an unmanned aerial vehicles fits into their lives.

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