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Snap recalls discontinued Pixy drone over fire risk

Snap and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling and offering refunds for the company's discontinued Pixy drone over a fire risk.

Snap and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are recalling the company’s discontinued Pixy drone and telling owners to stop using it or charging the batteries because of a fire hazard. Snap revealed the palm-sized drone camera in April 2022 after years of rumors, and apparently moved roughly tens of thousands of them according to the CPSC’s recall listing (though that includes the batteries sold separately) — not a shabby accomplishment considering the company backed away from the product only four months later. But CEO Evan Spiegel had high hopes for the project, once claiming the market for personal drones was even bigger than camera glasses — the other hardware category Snap has stumbled through.

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