Now you can pilot a drone by twisting your body

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a new, intuitive way to pilot drones. Researchers at Switzerland's E cole Polytechnique Fe de rale de Lausanne have built a system that lets drone pilots steer their vehicles by just turning and twisting their torsos, said Megan Scudellari at IEEE Spectrum. The new technique turns out to be both more precise and more intuitive than using a joystick. In tests, researchers found that it "requires less mental focus from pilots and frees up their head and limbs."