Category: Drones
Top 5 drones under £100 – great fun for the holidays!
You don't need to spend a fortune to have fun over the festive season with a drone. Here are five models under £100 which you can take down your local park to perform tricks, take pictures and film footage from above. Many even offer High Definition video playback! Chris Price reports 1. Husban X4 H107D…
Must-have toys for Christmas 2016: Star Wars Quadcopter drone from Propel
Last night I went to the official launch of a collection of Star Wars drones from Propel (no I’d never heard of the company either) at London’s Madame Tussauds. We also checked out their Star Wars Experience room – see pic below.
GoPro Quadcopter drone to be available first half of 2016, Hero4 ‘easy to hack’ warns security firm
GoPro's chief executive Nick Woodman has confirmed it will make its own quadcopter drones, describing the remote controlled aircraft as the "ultimate" accessory for his firm's action cameras. The quadcopter will be available to buy in the first half of 2016. He made the announcement at the Code Conference in California last week, where he also unveiled…
WATCH: Chimpanzee Vs Drone
View post on imgur.com There's probably some sort of deep metaphor for mankind's pursuit of technology here or something, but check out the above video of a chimp encountering a drone flying nearby. So will it be Rise of the Planet of the Apes or Rise of the Machines?
DJI announce Phantom 3 drone that can live stream to YouTube
Last night Chinese drone maker DJI held three simultaneous glitzy press events around the world to unveil its latest drone: The Phantom 3, which is an update on last year's Phantom 2. And it brings an impressive array of new functions. The new drone comes in two models - "Professional" and "Advanced". The former will…
Meet the ELF Selfie Drone
The future is going to be amazing. ELF is a tiny little drone (or "nano-copter") with a built in a camera - and it is designed to take photos and video. To control it, all you need is your smartphone - it works over bluetooth and wifi. What sounds incredible is that you'll also be…
Facebook carries out drone test in the UK
Mark Zuckerberg has been flying drones above the UK. Don't worry, they're not like Obama's flying death machines - you won't be getting poked from skies or anything like that. According to E&T, Britain was used as a testbed for Facebook's "Aquila" drone, that the company hopes will one day help get the rest of…
Drone photography is getting standardised lenses – brilliant!
Interesting news this morning as it has emerged that drone maker DJI, which makes the high-end Phantom series of drones has signed up to Olympus and Panasonic's "Micro Four Thirds" lens standard. Micro Four Thirds is an attempt to standardise lenses across different manufacturers of mirrorless cameras - so that you can use Olympus lenses…
WATCH: Fan-made Millennium Falcon drone is exactly as cool as you imagine
Drones are already pretty cool - but how can you make them cooler? By making them look like the Millennium Falcon, that's how. Check out this video by Redditor Olivier-FR, who has been channelling his inner-Han Solo, and has built a polystyrene frame for his custom-built quadcopter: Olivier clearly knows what he is doing -…
DJI drones get software update to stop flying near the White House
DJI has released a software update for its Phantom drones that will prevent it flying near the White House, in line with new American Federal Aviation Administration guidelines. As spotted by Gizmag, the new software stops the Phantom drones from flying within a 25km radius of the White House. Perhaps not coincidentally, this updates comes…
