Japan's 'Helicopter Boyz' turn the Nikon S1000pj into something much more disturbing

We're not going to chalk this one up to Japanese culture, the child rearing techniques of show-biz-addled parents, or the craze-inducing effects that come from the integration of a pico projector within a digital camera -- this video is too big to have such trite little lines drawn around it. Basically it answers the age-old question of what would happen if you strapped a couple dozen Nikon Coolpix S1000pj cameras to two excitable children and had them work through an incredibly awkward choreography in front of hundreds of their astonished peers. Video is after the break.

[Johnathan Posted Nov 29th 2009 1:44PM]

Definitely NOT fake... After watching it again and looking at those time stamps others have pointed out, it is clearly not fake. I think it is just a case of envy, and the fact they realize they could have never imagined such creativity, and so soon after a new product is released. I can't wait to see what other bouts of creativity and imagination this product inspires.

[max1001 Posted Nov 29th 2009 2:13PM]

Wow guys. Is just a cool video. Stop making it into something else. What the hell do you get out of it by proving it's fake?

[barry99705 Posted Nov 29th 2009 3:03PM]

@max1001 False advertising. There's no way in hell those little projectors are that bright.

[Ned Scott Posted Nov 29th 2009 4:48PM]

@barry99705
You can't accurately tell brightness from a video like that. It's entirely possible that it was much darker on stage than it appeared.

[barry99705 Posted Nov 29th 2009 6:57PM]

@Ned Scott To be able to have the projected images show up on film you'd need a pretty long exposure. It'd be blurry as hell if it was the camera's projectors actually doing the projection. These things aren't that bright from just a couple feet from the camera. For it to look like it looks on screen they were at least six to eight feet from the screen. I have portable dell projectors at work that aren't that bright from that distance, and they have HID bulbs in them. There's no way in hell a led is going to throw an image that bright that far.

[wrsu1996gmailcom Posted Nov 29th 2009 3:17PM]

you guys are so mean it wuznt disturbing it was cool

[Joshua Przygocki Posted Nov 29th 2009 3:34PM]

What did I just see there... when the sexy female school teacher took her pants off and it turns out she was a dude... wait wrong video, pretend you didn't read that...

[Kero Posted Nov 29th 2009 3:51PM]

Hey Paul Miller you're a jackass!

[yrag Posted Nov 29th 2009 4:42PM]

Apparently Paul, your little jesting has awakened the anger of the nerd-tribe!

Engadget is Helicopter Boyz Central.

Who would have guessed? Hmmm, actually . . .

[Ned Scott Posted Nov 29th 2009 4:45PM]

Being "disturbing" and "freakin' awesome" are not mutually exclusive.

[Special Agent Steve Posted Nov 29th 2009 5:29PM]

The only thing disturbing is the name "Helicopter Boys" being repeated in English rather than Japanese.

But, that's about it.

[Poita Posted Nov 29th 2009 6:01PM]

What with your recent nasty comments about the livescribe pen and now this whats the deal. You should be selectivly nasty not indescriminatly nasty. Any more of this NY tude and some evil ectoplasm is gonna rear up and tear you a new one.

I also think that the stability of the images is suspect.

[Voideka Posted Nov 29th 2009 7:32PM]

I said this in a reply to someone, but it's fake. I only was sure when I went back and noticed that at about 2:38, the right kid's foot image has a seizure, but his actual foot/leg don't freak out.

Normally I wouldn't care but people seem like they're being mislead about the quality of the projectors. They may be good, but this video basically has nothing to do with them.

[lanlanb Posted Nov 29th 2009 9:05PM]

this was pretty badass! and so real.

[taciturnforsale Posted Nov 29th 2009 9:26PM]

Nice idea... poor execution.

[Taubin Posted Nov 29th 2009 9:37PM]

That really kinda freaks me out to be honest.

The Pico's are cool though

[BigKing Posted Nov 29th 2009 9:47PM]

I've been to Yomiuri Land, it was the weirdest theme park I've ever been.

[MANTISxB Posted Nov 29th 2009 11:03PM]

Wow, thats a really cool idea. Nice job. I thought it was pretty neat!

[keithwwalker Posted Nov 30th 2009 1:48AM]

Too bad Michael Jackson isn't around to appreciate this.
He and Maculey would of luvved it
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/08/palm-beijing.jpg

[Poita Posted Nov 30th 2009 10:29AM]

er, wher'es my post from yesterday?

[bLove Posted Nov 30th 2009 10:50AM]

This might be one of the lamest things I've ever seen.

[SmoothMarx Posted Nov 30th 2009 6:53PM]

this definitely goes into my "lolwtf" category.