celebrated Italian design house Pininfarina is a staple name in the autosphere and is no stranger to a slew of exquisitely designed marvels, ranging from pen to sports equipment to architecture, but a drone? well, that had to be the first for the firm. the drone, a quadcopter known as […]
Chocolate LEGO Lets You Have The Bricks And Eat It who says you can’t have it all? in the case of Japanese artist Akihiro Mizuuchi’s chocolate LEGO, you certainly can have the fun and satisfy your sweet tooth too. the blocks fit together like real LEGO bricks, though it might […]
it may sounds like it, but no, the Hoverbike which Chris Malloy has been developing is not ready for your acquisition. first introduced more than two years ago, the Hoverbike is still in work-in-progress. in fact, the Hoverbike is now on second-generation design which saw it ditching the two-rotor system […]
action sports inexpensively and by virtually anyone, with or without flying experience, but what’s the fun of capturing others in action when you could be in the action and be captured in film? well, that’s precisely what a Palo Alto-based startup AirDog wants you to do with the AirDog Auto-follow […]
while Mercedes-Benz uses satellite and various gizmos to predict the road ahead, French automaker Renault takes the ‘looking forward’ game up a notch by giving its Renault KWID Concept a quadcopter for, you know, actual surveillance of the traffic situation way ahead.
drone designers Marque Cornblatt and Eli Delia of Game of Drones fame have solved the biggest woe that has plagued drone flyers aka RC quadcopter pilots: breakage of frame. the duo wants the Rugged Drone Airframe (officially, dubbed the Sumo Quad) be the last airframe you will ever buy.
instead of offering yet another minute update to the A.R.Drone such as the recent “power edition“, Parrot has a new flyer to showoff at this year’s CES and it is called the Parrot MiniDrone. though termed “mini”, this baby is hardly a scaled down version of the A.R.Drone;
with no less than 20 birds in its arsenal, Swann is certainly no stranger to RC flying toy (even one that drops bubbles!), but a quadcopter is something new to the lineup, which is what makes it worthy of a mention. looking like an aircraft that pops out of a sci-fi movie, the Swann Quad Starship RC Quadcopter is propelled by four rotors, each having its own protective guard.
whether you are an aspiring movie maker or someone who just wanted a different perspective of your family outing photos, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision Quadcopter will be able to fill in the shoes and thanks to the influx of such camera-rigged quadcopter, the acquisition won’t leave you begging on the street.
being a non-pilot, a camera-equipped radio controlled rig like this Hubsan X4 FPV RC Quadcopter is probably the closest you will ever get to the front seat of an aircraft. clad in a lightweight airframe, the X4 FPV is a full-fledge radio controlled quadcopter with a 6-axis flight control system, coreless motors and adjustable gyro sensitivity
ever tried starting out on remote control flying? then you will know how hard it is, but thanks to technological advancements we have today, things are a way easier as compared to when i was just starting out. the Hex Smartphone-controlled Nanocopter is just one such example. however, run-of-the-mill, it is not.