Meet the Axis VIDIUS Drone , the world’s smallest quadcopter, and your new favorite flying toy – with live video capability! At just $74.99, this deal is available for a limited time only on TNW Deals .

The VIDIUS is an impressive flying machine, utilizing six-axis gyro technology for a speedy, stable flight and a smooth landing as you develop your stunt-flying skills from up to 100 feet away. Its adjustable gyro sensitivity and gyro tech makes the learning curve easy – soon you’ll effortlessly spin, flip, do aerial dives and even give your friends some UFO-speculation excitement at night, thanks to its built-in LED lights.

You’ll enjoy 360-degree rotational yaw with five to seven minutes of flight time per 20 minute charge, while streaming and recording live video and still images as you go for social media sharing, prank videos, bragging rights – you decide

You may have heard news about the FAA demanding that drone owners register their property, but these new regulations don’t apply to the tiny Axis VIDIUS – it’s simply too small to be included in the classifications. Check out just how compact and versatile the VIDIUS is in action:

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Also not to be missed: The Ultra-Stealth Nano Drone is now just $19.99

Unlimited high-flying fun awaits in the Ultra-Stealth Nano Drone – the world’s smallest quadcopter, and your new favorite flying toy.

This tiny quadcopter is small enough to rest on the tip of your finger, and can easily maneuver through small spaces with acrobatic finesse – and with eight frequency points, it won’t disturb or crash into its fellow aerial vehicles, so you can command your own flying army of microdrones!

For a limited time, TNW readers can get one for just $19.99 plus free shipping to the continental U.S. – that’s 50 percent off MSRP, the lowest price on the web.

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The Connected Yard is about to make gardening a whole lot smarter

The ‘connected home’ is a concept we’ve heard a lot about over the past few years, but how about the connected yard?

At SXSW , Scotts – the company behind gardening brands like Miracle-Gro and Weedol – has been showing off its Gro ‘Connected Yard’ offering that is set to launch in the USA next month.

The heart of the concept is a mobile app called Gro that allows you to set goals for your garden, regardless of whether you have a huge yard or a tiny apartment balcony to work with. Maybe you want to grow a gorgeous flowerbed, or your own ingredients to go into cocktails, for example, or just improve the state your lawn.

Whatever your goal, the app will give you step-by-step instructions over days and weeks. The tips are tailored to your location, weather reports and data received from an accompanying range of internet-connected sensors made by third-party manufacturers, that do things like check the health of your plants. The ‘Works with Gro’ program is launching with products from Blossom , Rachio , Green IQ , Lono , PlantLink and Parrot .

Scotts also plans interactive installations in retail outlets that will sync with your Gro app and help you buy exactly the right gear. It’s all well and good to be told to buy a hose, but which one is exactly right? The app will guide you to the specific shelf in the store.

The company hopes that the Connected Yard will help get more millennials into gardening by offering an 21st century approach to a pastime that can seem offputtingly complicated to beginners. I hope Scotts rolls the Connected Yard idea out beyond the USA, as it might well encourage me to do more with my humble European garden.

➤ Scotts Gro

Sulon says its all-in-one headset doesn’t need a PC to run AR and VR experiences

While HTC and Oculus’ upcoming headsets look promising for VR fans, you’ll need to make room for a high-end PC, position tracking devices and all the cables needed to connect the headsets to your desktop.

Hardware firm Sulon believes it’s hit upon a better alternative. It says that its Q headset packs computing, graphics and spatial positioning processors into a single wireless unit so you can enjoy a full-on VR and AR experiences with no additional gear.

The company claims that its device offers a 2560 x 1440 pixel OLED display with a 110-degree field of view. For comparison, HTC’s Vive manages 2160 x 1200 pixels.

Filling out the Q’s specification sheet is an AMD FX-8800P processor with Radeon R7 graphics, 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD for storage, as well as support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3D spatial audio.

What’s especially interesting is the Sulon Spatial Processing unit built into the device. The company says it uses real-time machine vision to map your surroundings and track your movements and gestures. That means that if you walk around in real life, your character or point of view in the VR experience will move as well.

To pull that off, the Vive requires at least one (two if you have room) external position tracking device to be installed in the space you intend to use.

Sulon says you’ll also be able to use Windows 10 Minority-Report style, placing apps wherever you like in your field of view.

The device comes with custom earbuds, dual noise-canceling embedded mics, a 3.5mm audio jack and a bundled wireless keyboard and mouse.

Specs and capabilities aside, what I’m concerned about is how it’ll wear and feel over extended periods of use. For it to be comfortable, the weight of all those components needs to be evenly distributed across the Q’s front and rear modules. I also expect that the device would get pretty warm after a couple of hours of gameplay.

If the Q can deliver console-quality graphics and AR experiences as Sulon says, it could offer serious competition to the $800 HTC Vive and the $600 Oculus Rift. The company hasn’t announced pricing for its late spring release, but given those specs, I wouldn’t expect it to be less than $2,000.

➤ Sulon