Actually, I don't agree at all. Despite popular fads words, it IS a "quadrocopter". Or probably more accurate Latin: "quadricopter".

Whatever people call them, the idea itself is genius! Capable of stable flight, programmable but autonomous, the idea demands to be brought to fruition. Now let's make the camera(s) Blutooth linked to home base - so you can see what it sees in real time - add a Glock and let's go hunting rabbits!

Ok. Some one develop the "Dog Walker" app... I want my dog to be able to trigger the Spiri into flight, and then fly a random pattern (above my dog's reach) around the yard and then come back to the landing pad.

Close, but no cigar. Add real time stereo vision sent to a pair of goggles (with accelerometers so the pilot can use his head for remote pitch / roll / yaw control) and handheld roller dial (for direction / speed control). There, I just described the perfect Spiri. Run with it, fellas, I don't have the engineering skill or resources.

Cool, I think we need more quadrocopters or whatever you might call them, in the marketplace. I bought another brand, the parrot AR and it broke pretty much on its second flight, it landed kinda roughly and that was it, dead. I ordered a replacement part over 100$ and it still didnt work, like 600$ down the drain.
However the Parrat AR you could fly from your smartphone it sent video from the copter to you so you could fly from cameras mounted on it. It doesn't mention you being able to do that with this copter so i imagine its more designed to be set on specific flight paths or set to fly to certain specifications, ie fly to 1000 feet and do a 360 and fly back to start location.
Hopefully they will be able to bridge the gap between being light and stable, with being able to carry enough stuff on it to allow you to control it from a smartphone(heavier battery packs to power transmission perhaps)

Picture yourself in Afghanistan taking incoming fire from a nearby ridge line. You could launch one of these drones then through your eyepiece mark where you want to copter to go to recon the whole area.

@Nathaneal - That's kind of the whole point though. This quad may not ship with a remote so as part of the ecosystem controllers will evolve - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, android, windows, apple, 2.4Ghz... You name it, it will come or so the theory goes. I like the concept & design. Now if we could remove the heart and transplant it in to bigger more powerful bodies as well which could handle professional camera gear then we have a scalable system as well. It sounds like should be a fairly easy task with the dedicated flight controller. Congrats guys & I hope it goes well for you!

OR jut get a APM 2.6 and you can have your very own royalty free Quadcopter.... (some tuning required) , add as many cameras as your video system will handle.

Quadcopters are awesome and there are plenty of ready to go solutions that you can purchase and start using today, no need to tie your money up until April 2014 with a kickstarter that may not deliver.

Thanks for all the interest!
@Nathanial, I'm sorry your previous quad experiences weren't the best. You are correct, Spiri does come with a library of flight commands but Spiri can also be controlled via smartphone and video from the camera can stream to you directly. Spiri is also designed to carry up to 100g of additional sensors or cameras.
@John NZ. Spiri doesn't ship with a separate remote control because it doesn't require one for flight. You will however be able to control Spiri remotely with a mobile app which is free available to all Spiri users. You are right, additional controllers will evolve with the system!