If you watch a lot of sci-fi movies, you may have come across a scenario or two of a person unpacking a drone and simply threw it into the air and it start videoing or surveying the area. Well, the Hover Camera developed by China-based Zero Zero Robotics you see […]
I remember when I first started out with RC helicopter, the biggest hurdle was keeping the craft stable and trying not to knock into anything in process. Even the instruction manual specifically points out to avoid maneuvering the aircraft near living things or too small a space. That was then. […]
By now, Trekkies who are not Star Wars fans would be lamenting why Star Trek merchandizes did not proliferate the market like Star Wars did? I mean, Star Wars even gets its own radio control craft, didn’t they? Well, if RC is what you are concerned about when it comes […]
While Tokyo metropolitan police is busy training officers to intercept drones with net-equipped drones, Dutch police look to the wild to combat errand drones. In the pursuit to take down irresponsible drones or drones suspected of ill-intentions, Dutch National Police is training eagles to do the job. Well, that’s kind […]
If Hollywood has taught us anything, it would be the idea of ‘future’ is about gestures and voice control. These two controls have already become realities of life but in the case of voice control, it is just making to drone now and the Flypro XEagle Voice-controlled Smart Flying Drone […]
It doesn’t take a genius to know that a drone and a flamethrower combined is not a good news. Even so, you don’t expect a teen who had the history of retrofitting a handgun onto a drone to back off from such delightful project, don’t you? Yup. We are referring […]
Smartphones, with the right hardware, can do 101 things and now, with the xCraft PhoneDrone Ethos, you can add imaging drone to the growing list. You heard that right – a flying smartphone is real. Well, it is not quite a smartphone designed to fly, but rather, it is a […]
You know Luke Skywalker’s trusty astromech, R2-D2, from Star Wars? Yes. The trash can-like profile droid whose cuteness was only recently usurped by BB-8 from the The Force Awakens. Well, if you know anything about Artoo, it can’t fly on its own, but that doesn’t mean it can’t in real […]
How do you convince people to wear clothes? Why, you don’t actually need to cos’ most humans are pretty fond of wrapping fabric all over their bodies. That said, however, you do need some marketing effort to make people sees your brand among the ocean of competitors. And in the […]
With the proliferation of drone technology, drones are becoming more and more accessible and hence, posing security threats. I mean, drones could be use to better our lives, but to anyone with criminal intents, it could use for more sinister purposes. While some may dismissed this drone phenomenon as an […]
Remember the flying security drone we featured a while back? Well, while those are guys are still pitching the idea to consumers, Japanese security specialist SECOM is ready to dish out one for a cool 800,000 Yen (about US$6,600), plus a 5,000 Yen (US$41) monthly security service fee. Though we […]