Teen Vogue thumbs down

Seems the buyers here are not that enthused.

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/flying-selfie-stick

As if our airspace wasn't crowded enough — there are now flying selfie sticks that follow you around if you're willing to pay nearly $350 for what basically amounts to a personal photography drone. Using facial recognition technology, the ROAM-e flying selfie stick will isolate your face and automatically take photos of you for set periods of time.

But there's one huge problem: it's not really a selfie stick.

The company's mission was to build a "selfie stick on steroids" according to Mashable, and it sounds like they missed the mark. A selfie stick uses your phone's camera — which probably has close to 12-megapixels — while the ROAM-e has its own 5-megapixel camera built in. It's not a bad camera, but it's just not great.

To make up for that though it can capture 360-degree panoramas and stream live video. This device will also follow you around for 20 minutes at a time automatically, which is kind of scary because it knows what you look like.

Created by IoT Group in Australia, the company's executive director, Ian Duffell told MashableAustralia, "The selfie stick's problem is it's confined by the length of the stick... The thought was, let's get the thing taking the picture flying with you."

Duffell also told the site he hopes photo enthusiasts will one day say they're taking a 'ROAM-e,' rather than a selfie." Hey — a guy can dream.