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Intel Brought 300 Drones To The Super Bowl
In case you missed the amazing performance by Lady Gaga at the Super Bowl, you should definitely check it out on Youtube. And more interestingly, watch the 300 drones that Intel provided as a part of the program. Truly amazing! For more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3166068/techology-business/intel-brought-300-drones-to-the-super-bowl.html
Tethered Drone Monitors Traffic Flow
In France, a company called Elistair Tethered Solutions offers a live, real time look into how traffic is flowing, where congestion happens and many more data points. A single drone operator is able to control the flight for hours at a time because the drone receives power from the tether, which means there is not the usual concern with short battery life. The tethered drone uses DataFromSky traff...
MIT Allows You To Design And Build A Custom Drone
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a system that let you customize your own drone. The system allows you to customize the size, shape, colors, and other specifications of a drone from a template and then actually create that drone based on those specifications. “To our knowledge, this the first system that allows non-experts to design and build their own custom drone,” s...
New Uses For Drones
Everyone knows about the obvious use cases for drones in ever day life. Aerial photography, racing, delivery vehicles, and of course, military applications. However, there is a “long tail” of drone uses that are not normally discussed or very obvious at first glance. Building inspections, mapping, safety, maintenance, and more. The media loves to tell stories about drones that are doin...
Radar For Drones
Most of today’s drones use front facing or downward facing cameras to detect and avoid obstacles. These drones are able to avoid large, bulky objects like buildings, cars, and usually, people. However, to be very accurate and effective, different technologies must come into play. One such technology is being developed by a company called Echodyne, a Seattle, Washington based start up with in...
Robot Drone Man
Ilhan Bae is a researcher and futurist who has done something pretty amazing. He has put Kubi telepresence robot on top of a DJI S1000 drone. The result is a robotic being that can move its arms, interact with people and fly from place to place. Bae says that “it may look impractical to install heavy robot parts on a light drone, but the benefits of telepresence via a flying drone overwhelm the re...
Intel Breaks World Record With 500 Drones
Yesterday we published an article about how Walt Disney World is using drones as “digital fireworks” in the sky. Today we have a great follow up to that article with this news about Intel using 500 drones, piloted by one person, to break a world record and prove that drones can make a beautiful spectacle in the air. Intel announced their second branded drone, the Intel Shooting Star, b...
Drones to Replace Fireworks at Disney
Disney has filed patents as far back as 2014 to use drones for different types of entertainment. One of the biggest use cases is to use up to 500 drones, flying in a preset pattern, to create three dimensional images in the sky. Disney has been testing this at different parks and the results are amazing! Check out the article and video in the link below to see what it looks like to have 500 drones...
Drone Crashes Into Seattle Space Needle
The Seattle Space Needle is a world famous icon and architectural wonder. It has been photographed and video recorded for years. Today, more and more people are trying to shoot video of the Space Needle with drones and more and more people are failing at the task! Check out this video of the third drone to crash into the Space Needle in recent months!
Amazon Files Patent For Tiny Companion Drone
Amazon has made it clear that the company intends to use drones in its business. The company is developing a system that allows drones to deliver small packages to its customers. But in addition to package delivery, Amazon has filed a patent for small drones that can “ride along” with regular citizens or police and help them with tasks. With police, the drones would be programmed to re...
DJI Accidentally Gives Tour Of Factory
The manufacture of drones is a long, tedious and detailed process. And with camera drones, there is often a need to test the recording devices and cameras within the drones. Sometimes the workers in these factories record test footage and then forget to delete the results before they box up the drone and ship it out! This article shows footage and pictures from just such an incident that was left ...
How To Hijack A Drone
Concerns about drone safety have risen as more and more people are becoming pilots and the air space around things like forest fires and other natural disasters becomes more crowded. While there are those who believe that the only way to take a drone out of the air is with a shotgun, others have come up with more sophisticated methods for stopping unwanted air traffic. One such method is a small h...