Photo: Jamie Chung for TIME
AeroVironment’s Hummingbird – a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions.
New York photographer Jamie Chung spent two and a half weeks shooting the Hummingbird—among a handful of other inventions, including the artificial leaf and a $100,000 razor—for the annual Invention Issue. “It was inspirational,” Chung says of the project. “Meeting the inventors was the best part. They’re totally comfortable with their nerd-dom, but so am I, so we had a lot of fun together.”
AeroVironment lead engineer Matt Keennon brought the Hummingbird to Chung’s studio, where the photographer shot it in several positions. The remote-controlled device weighs just 0.66 ounces, allowing it to go where humans can’t, be it spying or scouting out safe spots in combat zones. “It’s crazy to think something so pretty is used for something so dangerous,” Chung said.
Source: Time LightBox