 Deep in the Ontario countryside lives a man with very particular tastes. He likes things fast, high tech, and a little bit out of control. Inside the mansion, a stuffed moose sports a top hat. A colossal chrome rifle adorns the wall. Dozens upon dozens of knobs, panels, and plugs help him craft those special sounds. Oh, and drones. Lots and lots of drones. I was here to meet Deadmau5. Along for the ride was Sam Sheffer, the Virgis social media mastermind, as well as our friend Marques Brownlee, or as the internet knows him, MKBHD. Neither of these guys had ever flown before. Smells like New Jersey. Hidden out here in his newly built home is EDM artist Joel Zimmerman, better known as Deadmau5. That's me opening the door, not Deadmau5. He's into tinkering, recording songs, driving fast cars, and flying drones. Like anyone else, I started out, of course, just grabbing a fan and getting a feel for it and then realizing how easy it is to control because the thing that I had my reservations about were dudes that fly fixed wing aircraft and stuff like that. I was like, oh man, you got to be... We're remodeling, excuse us. They'd be flying those things and you're so sensitive on the joystick, but those guys, you just drop the remote and it's like, I'm like, okay. I got really comfortable with that. I figured I might as well just go for it and then try the 1000. More often than not, I was like, oh, maybe I'll just take the Phantom with the Zenmuse on it because I could just get it out of the car and rip it up and whatever. That's kind of an option. I would be scared to fly the S1000. I still get a little freaked out. While he does have some very big and very expensive toys, Joel was really interested in flying the newest of the new. DJI's recently released Inspire One Quadcopter. All right, this is probably where you play the dramatic music and I'm just like... Also don't include the math music. My wife told me not to do that. The Inspire One takes the big league features of the S1000 and combines them with the run and gun nature of the Phantom, resulting in a unique drone at a new price point. So I've flown the DJI Phantom before, but this is my first time flying the Inspire One. Everything has been pretty much the same, the way you turn it on, the way you get the controller connected, and now I'm going to try and take off and not break this incredible machine. So I'm piloting right now and Marquez is on the gimbal operating the camera. It definitely is a lot faster and a lot more powerful feeling than the Phantom. The controls are super easy because I'm only using one of them for camera control. So up, down, left, right. I basically can follow everything with one finger. So I'm going to go up a little bit and as you see when I go forward and then stop, it kind of pulls back like it's throwing on the brakes, which is a cool feature. It doesn't drift. The Inspire One, at least for now, does lack a lot of the autonomous features found in many of the drones on the market. You can't set white points or have the drone automatically follow you. Both huge features we recently saw at CES. It does however feature an optical sensor facing directly down, allowing it to fly without GPS, making it much safer for flying indoors. First we decided to see if it could keep up with Joel's ATV and a few of his other toys. It makes you feel like a kid again. Yeah I was going to say like growing up, we went through a bunch of RC cars and you use it for like, you know, a few weeks, a few months and then it's like the battery dies or whatever. But this is like completely different ball game because it flies. Having that third dimension to just literally explore and see what you can do with it. I think that's huge and people like that a lot. I could see this doing real well in like site surveying, construction. I mean we were like hella wanting some Tim Hortons coffee this morning and there was nobody here. And if you had that and could just be like go to Tim Hortons and come back and it came back with the coffee. That's a world that's like 50 years away though. That world is five years away. Amazon is like testing that right now. Yeah I don't know man, I'm like I'm so 50-50 on the fence of whether this is just like a hype thing that's just going to be fun for a hobby kind of thing. Right, is it just a fad where everyone's like oh I need one and then most people get one and are like I actually only use it once a year. And then they crash it and you don't buy another one. Yeah because you have to be willing to crash it and then repair it. Like that's going to happen to you. It's kind of like an RC car. I've never flown anything at all before today. But I've been a huge fan of RC cars and just racing little cars around. And basically the fact that these are so user friendly helps a lot where you add that access but it's not a big distraction because you still have full control. It still breaks for you, it still stops. So much less of a pain in the ass to land. I'll be right back. And that's not a drought. Go like over the shed. Yeah. Not towards the road. This is how we deal with unidentified flying drones on my property. Take it up a bit. Pull. Think I can get it first time? Yeah. Oh. One shot, one kill. Damn. Like that was a fucking one in a million. That was awesome. Drones are getting cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitous every day. Yet no license or training is required to fly them. The technology has clearly outpaced the law. Recently, after one crashed onto the White House lawn, President Obama basically acknowledged there are no regulations in place. I've actually asked the FAA and a number of agencies to examine how are we managing this new technology because the drone that landed in the White House you buy in RadioShack. I mean I have no confidence in the FAA doing the right thing and obviously they basically They're either going to shut it down or nothing. Right. You know? And they can't shut it down, it's too big. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Like everyone already has these crazy powerful units but there are, it's hard to imagine a legal framework where we could keep what we have and also stay safe. Well that's gun control 101. We can't stop people from armed robbery but we still have gun stores and you can still get one with the sufficient paperwork. Maybe just some basic training and then when you get certified your unit or your remote or your control apparatus is obviously bound to your unit and you have a tag or a chip and then that's you. So you would be liable and you'd have to insure that unit for any dumbassery like homeboy at Yellowstone Park. It's like, whoops. You know, well technically it's legal because it didn't say I couldn't. You know, and I'm like, well you're a dumbass. Yeah, you spend like 10 hours on the flight simulator to get your certification, you're flying it, the FAA knows who you are and where you are and if you crash, they can hold you responsible. They don't care. You know what I mean? If you smack it into a building and freak out an old lady or whatever, then that's you responsible for that. Not the community, not drones, just you, you know, because you're an idiot. In the meantime, flying drones is an airborne wild west with pilots writing most of their own rules. Deadmau5 wouldn't have it any other way.