Kickstarter grounds Eye3 flying camera   Pie in the sky? The
canceled Eye3 robot camera.  (Credit: Kickstarter)  Fancy having
your own self-guided flying camera mount? One that could get
your Canon dSLR soaring over your house and neighborhood for
only $2,500?  Kickstarter fans would, so much so that they
ponied up triple the $25,000 funding goal for the Eye3
hexacopter, powered by the open-source APM2 autopilot platform.
After all, flying drones, military and civilian, can record
stunning footage for a lot less than the price of a helicopter
camera crew.  But Kickstarter has poked its finger in the Eye3,
pulling the plug on funding.  Kellie Sigler, the woman behind
what was billed as "a professional quality yet affordable flying
robotic camera platform," wrote: "Kickstarter ended this
project. We don't really know why. They haven't contacted us
with any reason....or any info at all aside from that it has
been canceled."  It may have a lot to do with allegations that
the Eye3 was basically fake because it's