Tag: drones
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.
Ford announces $100,000 drone-to-vehicle challenge for United Nations
Ford is running a drone challenge worth $100,000 for winning entry Drones often seem to attract bad publicity. Either they are being used to kill people in the Middle East or they are flying into aircraft, potentially endangering lives. But here's a good news drone story from Ford which has just…
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?
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…
WATCH: DIY drone warfare
If you want a terrifying glimpse of the future, there's no need to go to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region and look at the skies - you can build your own death drones right here, it seems. Check out the above video in which a couple of maniacs have mounted roman candles on a drone -…
It is now possible to 3D print a DRONE!
New 3D printing technology that enables the printing of electronic circuit boards has apparently led to the creation of a drone that can be entirely 3D printed. For real. According to Michael Stiver on Medium, the drone is a creation of a company called Voxel8, which is made up of Harvard & MIT professors. Later…
WATCH: Man save a drone from drowning at the last second
So you've just spent £600 on a shiny new drone but disaster! The battery on your DJI Phantom II is running out, so it is automatically descending down to the ground for a controlled landing. The problem? It is going to end up in a pond. That's the dilemma that faced this chap - who…
WATCH: A terrifying vision of the future of warfare
A new video shwos the US Navy's research department has been busy working on a laser weapon. And it works. Check out this video showing how wars could be fought in the future: The laser is capable of taking out boats and drones - and is seemingly controlled with an Xbox controller if one shot…
Boris Johnson says that white vans are TERRIBLE (and he prefers drones instead)
Just over a week after Islington South MP Emily Thornberry's infamous "white van" tweet the Mayor of London Boris Johnson - an Islington resident himself - has come out and said he thinks that white vans are "terrible". Well, sort of anyway. According to The Guardian, Johnson has been speaking in Singapore to financial technology…
