Heard about the Quadrotor drone...??
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Check out these videos...
Scary - somehow...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM -
I gotta get me one of those.
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Start with this
[flash=640,385:3qaica71]http://www.youtube.com/v/OG1yvv1BABQ?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:3qaica71]
http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/ -
That's freaking awesome!
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300€ : some expensive for a little toy
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i'd say thats cheap for what you get!! hours of fun!!
its got a camera on it as well. would love to chase my dogs with it
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Awesome! How lone before our (American) military has them strapped down with guns of some sort and all over Afghanistan
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@unknownuser said:
Awesome! How lone before our (American) military has them strapped down with guns of some sort and all over Afghanistan
shhh, look behind you.
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@unknownuser said:
Awesome! How lone before our (American) military has them strapped down with guns of some sort and all over Afghanistan
You don't think that they are not already using them??
BUT some 'innocent-looking-dick-wad' with a pipe-bomb stuck up his sweater, that he explodes as 'he just walks by', is NOT an easy target for this kind of detection/weaponry....
It then comes down to gut-instinct....
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Probably good for the peeping toms too!
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Did find out that Parrot AR.Drone has a open API platform. So it could be a bit more than funny toy/AR enable game. I don't expect it to evolve to something like the drone in the opening post...
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I predict a new "sport": Synchronized AR.Drone Flying where a teams of pilots put on competitive performances of synchronized maneuvers choreographed to music. (Each pilot on a team would have to 'fly' an individual drone --- not just have an app that flies them all from one controller). I think such displays of skill would be very popular.
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I wish there where some other remote control platforms for AR.Drone than iphone/pod/...
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...and for real practical applications...http://www.air2air.com/?gclid=CJOXgcy5maQCFYeY2AodvliIDg or http://www.microdrones.co.uk/index.html or http://skyeye.biz/
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@unknownuser said:
where a teams of pilots put on competitive performances of synchronized maneuvers choreographed to music.
You have yet that with flying kites
More fun and ecologic
[flash=640,385:5ikxoqik]http://www.youtube.com/v/R6Snl9wCEGI?fs=1[/flash:5ikxoqik]
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