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Japanese Drone To Produce Spherical LED Images For Sports Events

Related Topics: Light-emitting diode, NTT DoCoMo

Japanese telecommunications company NTT DOCOMO has created the first drone capable of displaying LED images on a spherical screen during flight. While drones are currently used in a variety of fields, the company hopes to use its new innovation at sporting events and concerts as well as during emergency situations.

“We are thinking about using it, for example, during the halftime break of soccer games when it could serve to display advertisements, or at the end of baseball games,” designer Wataru Yamada explained in Japanese to EFE. “About future development, we are working so that the drone can be further used to advise the people in case of emergency.