All the stories tagged with drone
Drones can save lives, provide emergency relief provisions
09/07/2012, Drones have been commonly used for military purposes. They are lightweight compared to conventional aircrafts and can be remotely controlled. However, they can be put to other uses than military strikes. For instance, a drone can be used to carry [...]
DRONE Bluetooth controller gets new design, sports 2 joysticks this time round
04/04/2012, Do it once, do it right – but unfortunately, not everyone gets the job done right the first time around, which is why we humans learn best from our mistakes. When we talked about the DRONE open source Bluetooth controller [...]
DRONE: an open source Bluetooth controller for smartphones and tablets
03/21/2012, While using a touchscreen to game isn’t a problem for most people, there are still gamers out there who can’t stand the thought of playing games without an actual gamepad. Well, unfortunately there aren’t a lot of options out there [...]
Argus drone with 1.8-gigapixel camera
12/30/2011, Drones are useful – they not only get behind enemy lines to make sure the job is done, it also more or less eliminates the risk of losing someone’s life in the process. Most drones used by the army comes [...]
No more friendly fire deaths from dones
11/16/2011, Just when you thought that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs for short) being used in the battlefield is the next best thing since sliced bread, considering the ‘pilot’ needs not head out to the battlefield and risk his life, along comes [...]
Nanodrone SQ-4 UAV reporting for duty, sir!
11/14/2011, When we talk about drones, most of the time we think of the Predator – this huge winged beast the flies like a remote controlled plane, making war seem more like a video game compared to the visceral air experience [...]
Angry Bird drone takes down drug smuggling planes
11/10/2011, Everyone with a modern smartphone would definitely have heard of Angry Birds before, and hey, even if mobile gaming is not your cup of tea, surely the name Angry Birds has passed by your mind from time to time during [...]
Switchblade backpack drone might help ground troops
11/02/2011, It has been so frequent that we read about our troops in far off lands like Iraq and Afghanistan getting killed by suicide bombers that I can safely say we’re more or less numb about it already. Hopefully, the advancement [...]
Japanese ball drone looks awesome
10/25/2011, What you see here has been dubbed as the “world’s first spherical flying machine”, where it was first announced in June earlier this year with its master, Japan’s Ministry of Defense, taking the step to showcase it to the general [...]
Camera drone built for Red Epic
10/11/2011, The world of cinematography has certainly come a long, long way since silent movies that turned out to be hits, with stalwarts such as Charlie Chaplin making us split our sides in the process. How about the Three Stooges that [...]
F50 robotic flying drone from China
08/19/2011, China has had its fair share of firsts – the first aircraft carrier, the first stealth fighter, and now, we have the first robotic flying drone known as the F50. Sounds like a Ferrari to you, no? This is a [...]
Spy drone cracks Wi-Fi networks and cell data
08/01/2011, Who would have thought that with some technical know how and an interest in DIY projects, this particular duo of an airplane hobby shop owners as well as an ex-Air Force official managed to conjure a flying drone which is [...]
Acturus: the tiny drone plane capable of not so tiny destruction
05/20/2011, The folks over at the Acturus company recently built a new tiny spy plane drone, called Acturus, that’s the unmanned equivalent of a compact car. It features a wingspan of a bit over 17 feet and weighs only 100-pounds. While [...]
