The AR Drone blows my mind on so many levels — iDevice app remote control quadrocopter with remotely-accessed onboard cameras? Augmented reality video game dogfights? And this amazing tech is only around $300?

Clearly we are already living in the future.

This piece by Saatchi & Saatchi, Italy, was done not to promote Rovio’s Angry Birds, but instead to help promote T-Mobile’s smartphone network. Seems a bit off-brand to mooch so heavily from an awesome game with only a tenuous tie-in to T-Mobile, but if pro sports players can appear in ads, why not giant ballistic birds?

Regardless, the impact on the crowd shows that it succeeded on at least some levels.

So by now, you’ve presumably seen and been amazed by the incredibly fast new content-aware fills in Photoshop CS5 that can basically delete objects from a photo. However, you may not have seen a similar principle being applied real time to video footage. While it’s not perfect yet, the results and demos are amazing. Click here for more information on Diminished Reality software which removes objects from video in real time..

To find out just how cool it is to be able to fly a helicopter and view from a built-in camera via your iPhone, check out this excellent review of the Parrot AR Drone.