Surprise CES 2026 appearance: HoverAir Just Dropped the AQUA Waterproof Follow Me Drone

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>> All right guys, roaming the floors at

CES

2026. I did not expect to see

Hover Air here. And if you guys know

Hover Air,

you guys know this little camera here.

This is the Pro Max. Yeah, this is the

8K version. The Pro Max. This is the one

I have at home. This thing, as far as

follow me functions, is an absolute

beast. And I was introduced to this a

little while back, and this is the very

first time, as far as like a public

event, that they are displaying this one

right now. This is the Hover Air Aqua.

Now, the one thing I really like about

this drone, which actually surprised me,

because when I first saw it, I did not

think it would actually be under 250 g.

So, this thing comes in at 249 g, which

means if you are in areas that have

regulations as far as being over 250 g,

where you normally have to register it

with the FAA,

you don't need to register this one. Of

course, you still have to abide by all

the standard FAA rules. Now, of course,

what makes this thing special? Well, as

you can see here, it is fully

waterproof. We just did a couple demos

here at the booth, and yes, you're able

to fly this drone. So, if you're out

there on the lake, on the river, and

you're out there paddle boarding, uh

stand up paddle, or even maybe even try

surfing, we'll see as far as how good

it's going to track, and how fast it can

track you. But, this thing is fully

waterproof, so you're able to take it

off, have the drone follow you. If it

does touch the water, or go down in the

water, or even if it goes upside down,

we tested it here. You can actually just

flip on turtle mode, and once you launch

the drone back up again, it'll flip over

and start flying normally. Now, when it

comes down to flight time, they are

rating this thing to go about 23

minutes. That's rated, of course. Now,

we'll see how much actual flight time

there is once we get this thing up in

the air. And the one thing that

surprised me, level seven wind

resistance. Some of the drones out there

most of the standard drones out there

are only at level five. So, being level

seven actually was a surprise to me that

this thing can take on a little bit more

wind than some of the other drones. Now,

one of the questions I had as far as

controlling the drone, now I don't have

a remote control, I don't have or I

don't want to have my mobile phone out

there with me. Might get wet. They have

this right here, which is a beacon. So,

you just put this onto your shoulder.

You can have the You have the controls

right here, so you can switch the modes.

So, this is the lighthouse. You can put

it on your arm, and then you can push

press one button, it takes off

automatically from the water, and then

it follows you. And in case you need to

um adjust the position of the camera,

you can also press here. There's a

little controlling um panel here that

you can adjust where the the camera can

fly. And press one more button, it flies

back to you and lands back to the water.

When it comes to the connection and

transmission, we're using the RTK

technology to connect the lighthouse and

the flying camera Aqua. Um

this RTK technology is a much more

accurate um technology than GPS to um

allow you to detect a centimeter level

of accuracy. Um even if on the ocean, um

if they lose connections, for example,

like it will also be supported by the

computer vision that can continue to

follow you just like what we did in the

Pro Max. So, this is a multi-source of

um data to make sure that Aqua connects

to very accurately whatever you do on

the water. There's a bunch of different

intelligent flight modes on this drone.

So, if you want to do things like we

have flat shot, we have spiral, bird's

eye, orbit, zoom out, hover. I mean, all

of those same modes, if you guys like I

said, if you're familiar with the Hover

Air, the Pro Pro Max versions, they have

a bunch of those modes here, and then

they also have

sup mode, which is stand up paddle mode.

They have all of those water sports

modes on this thing. They have, I

believe, about 10 or 10 or more

different intelligent flight modes on

the Aqua. Now, when it comes to video

resolution, this camera here has a 1

over 1.3 in sensor, capable of 4K up to

100 frames a second. And when we're

talking about tracking, the Aqua is

rated to go up to 34 mph. Like I said,

we'll definitely have to test that out.

I don't know how fast I'm going to be

able to get on the water. The one thing

that's really nice is that this is a

production unit. This is a ready to go,

at least this one is the final version,

which is really cool. I think they had

another show where they were just

showing uh one that was a pre-production

unit, but these are going to be shipping

soon. They didn't give me an exact date

on when it's going to be shipping, but

they said very soon. It is a in the

Indiegogo um campaign that was um put on

for the Aqua, but excited to hopefully

get my unit soon, so I can test this out

in the water. Again, if you guys want

more information about the Aqua and the

Hover Air Pro Max and all their other

drones, I'll leave their information

down below in the video description.