INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
You can see why I called it in.Getting to grips with a robot fishBiki is like a robot of an inflated cyclops pufferfish that you can control
On the Kickstarter page Biki is white, so it's with great surprise that I open the box to find a bright yellow robo-fish sat waiting to be
awoken and tossed into the murky depths.There is a remote control that comes with Biki, which has a little wrist strap like you got on
control easily accessible without having it hinder your swimming hands (official term).After charging Biki up, I booted up the accompanying
app, and then spent a frustratingly long period of time trying to get my phone and Biki to talk to each other
It was not a fluid process and by the end of it I was ready to chuck Biki in a river, which was handy.Camera and lights at the front,
Fish.I'm contemplating putting on some fishing waders so I can get some proper depth, and have Biki swim around me, like I'm the Little
trudge to the picturesque River Itchen, Hampshire, UK
forgotten my phone exists, again
Itchen is famous for being full of fish, so I'm really hoping for some amazing shots of fish swimming past, noticing Biki, adopting him as
one of their own, but unfortunately I'm out of season, so Biki is just under there with nothing but some weed for company.Which is a real
Certainly the pictures I took when holding him just out of the water are nice to look at.Here you can see both the hilarity of the menu
screen, and a sample of the image qualityA fish out of waterLike the friendless schoolkid at his birthday party, I'm not going to let poor
And taken the waders.)So I end up using my phone to make Biki swim about for a bit, but the current almost pulls him into the weeds, and no
I wade to him, scoop him out of the water, and hold his cold, hard body against me
issue, as he had to swim at full power just to stop the river from taking him away
