Mavic Pro, DJI's first foldable drone is the size of a water bottle

NEW YORK CITY — Even as the world of available public drone fly space shrinks, DJI continues to innovate, hoping to find new ways to attract drone customers and encourage them to fly — even indoors.

The small, smart, foldable Mavic Pro, which DJI unveiled on Tuesday, is the company's latest siren song to the drone curious.

It cuts away at least one layer of the complexity that might have kept the drone-shy at bay: no more attaching the propeller blades. Instead, the Mavic Pro folds up neatly, propellers and all, and fits inside a backpack.