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7-Eleven and drone startup Flirtey made the very first consumer drone delivery in the United States, according to Tech Crunch.
The convenience store chain successfully delivered Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, donuts, hot coffee, and candy to a family on July 10 using a drone built by Flirtey.
We are living in the future
If you are interested in getting started on drones, and near Ohio, this is a meetup for you.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Murphy Company
455 W Broad St, Columbus, OH
Our new vlog series, How to Race Drones, features Mashable Creative Producer Sam Sheffer diving into the growing world of drone racing as he prepares to compete in the Liberty Cup drone race on July 30.
In the first episode, two drone experts teach Sheffer what it takes to move from a beginner to an advanced drone extraordinaire.
From building a drone to flying one, Sheffer learns it all.
George Matus was 11 years old when he flew his first drone. "I was immediately hooked," the young man tells me with a grin. By age 16 he was competing as a professional drone racer and acting as a test pilot for new aircraft. Now 18, he recently finished high school but decided to defer college, opting instead to pursue a fellowship offer from tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He used that money to start his own company, Teal, which today is launching its first product, a consumer facing drone that a beginner can easily fly with an iPhone to capture 4K video. The difference between Teal's first drone and the competition is that this unit can also perform like a racecar, reaching speeds of 85 miles per hour while flipping, diving, and performing barrel rolls.
Drones are the next step in high-end real estate sales, say local Realtors, an innovation that eclipses two-dimensional still photography. Having a drone in your real estate arsenal also signals that your firm is cutting edge, says Joe Houlihan, managing partner of Houlihan & O’Malley Real Estate Services in Bronxville.
Agents and vendors are turning to emerging technology in video, 3D-imagery and drone photography to show prospective buyers properties from a whole different angle.
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are increasingly being used to provide a better overview not just of the property, but also of the surrounding area.
Now they could be providing a modern, constantly connected society with a lifeline in dire situations.
US network AT&T is looking at using drones to extend data networks through venues under heavy use such as at concerts and sports events.
The idea would be to have a drone tethered to the roof or top of the venue and for it to repeat the signal coming from a nearby cellular tower that might be just too out of reach for the phones in use there.
The US government is set to unleash drones that fire vaccine-covered M&Ms in a bid to save the endangered black-footed ferret, a species that is facing a plague epidemic across America’s great plains.
Rediculas, but also brilant.
The Pokémon Go craze is real, and it's forcing ghastly pale nerds like me who have never felt the kiss of Earth's sun to catch some dang virtual pokémans. (Other plural forms of Pokémon include Pokémen and Pokésmons.)
An unexpected side effect of Pokémon Go has been accidental exercise, as shown in this Gizmodo article documenting dozens of players reporting sore legs from walking around. One Pokémon Go player found a sneaky way around this pandemic, by strapping his Android to a DJI Phantom drone and mirroring his phone screen on his laptop using a program called AirDroid.
Look at this Cheaty McCheaterface, who asked Reddit if this MacGuyvered Pokémon Go setup was cheating, knowing FULL WELL WHAT IT IS:
Um, absolutely it is cheating! And yet I understand his infringing of the tacit rules of pokémon husbandry. When the game requires you trek all over town to hit up pokéstops and gyms and wander around aimlessly hoping for a rare pokémon other than a Doduo or Rattata to show up, it gets old fast. The egg incubator which tracks how much distance you've walked also won't count toward hatching your egg if you're in a car or train. A drone could fly slowly enough to trick the phone to think you're walking, so this solution is actually hilariously ingenious. And a cheat — let’s not forget it’s a cheat.
Yes, I am aware this is a franchise originally created for children, and a grown man devising a dastardly "Team Rocket scheme to capture pokémon" in a game meant to unify people IRL is shameful. But you know what? I don't care. Games aren’t just for kids anymore. Games are for adults too: cold, unfeeling, dastardly adults.
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We love our city, and this is one of its great events.
As Mark from the Abandoned Scotland YouTube channel has shown in his latest video, you can also use a drone to do some pretty cool 3D mapping.
Using a combination of Agisoft Photoscan, Drone Deploy and Phantom 3 Professional, he's able to create a 3D model of Cambusnethan Priory — an abandoned mansion.
Interesting articl, made even more interesting with the aid of the drone.
National Geographic's photo of the week, captured by drone.
Drones allow us to see the world the way they do, peacefully and beautifully from above, and it turns out their view of castles and palaces are even more stunning than what we can see from the ground.
The places included are:
There’s something quite poetic about using modern technology to find a new way to appreciate old, beautiful buildings.
Not exsactly leagal if you dont have an exemption but wait until you see what it looks like from up there. You’ve NEVER seen fireworks like this before!
Beautiful video featureing a 1979 Porsche 911SC Targa by drone. Heres looking at you @SweetCars
Last week, we had the much-anticipated Part 107 drone regulations, which will supersede the current exemption process and is estimated by the FAA to eliminate 85 percent of the present exemptions to drone piloting.
Notably, the new rules replace private pilots at every flight with operators that have passed a less-strenuous and less-expensive aeronautical knowledge test.
Drones are a tool of precision. Flying overhead, their cameras scan for targets. The agri-drone is a small-scale adaptation of the same premise. Developed by researchers at Japan’s Saga University, the agri-drone scans crops for clusters of bugs, and then delivers a precision dose of pesticide to the plant-eating critters below.
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