Gadget Ogling: Pokémon Go Drones, New Old Nintendo, and Snowden-Secured Smartphones

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that occasionally takes time off from thrashing out cut-price deals for once-towering Web properties to pore over the latest gadget announcements.

 directory this week are a drone for catching Pokémon, a revival of a classic gaming console, a smartphone case designed for security, and a novel way to keep cool and dry.

As ever, I've only read about these items and haven't even held them in my hands, so these are not reviews. The ratings serve only as an indicator of how much I'd like to try them, and have nothing to do with how many billion dollars I bid for Yahoo.

Catch 'Em All

Pokémon Go, the augmented-reality smartphone game that's been eating away at the fabric of society in recent weeks, is enormously fun. I enjoy the mechanics, and that it pushes me to go on longer walks every day. That's all well and good in the nicer weather, but when there's two feet of snow, I don't really want to traipse around so much.
That's why Pokédrone might be my new favorite thing. You apparently can use it to spoof your phone's GPS signal (a key component of finding those elusive Pokémon) to find more creatures. It's designed to help catch more elusive Pokémon, including those that might be out on a lake.
I'm unclear as to whether Pokédrone truly will take flight, as GPS spoofing requires jailbreaking (at least on iPhone) or using Apple's development tools, which would be difficult for most iPhone users to do. Then there's the potential copyright infringement issue with the name.