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Drone is a mash-up of several interesting tech concepts. It's a remote control quadricopter that's piloted via an iPhone/iPod Touch app, while also providing a live-to-screen video feed from its built-in video camera, as well as optional augmented reality gaming apps. A free App Store download called AR.FreeFlight is necessary for pairing and controlling the Drone. Once set up and installed, you have two flight-control options. In the beginner mode, users hold the left onscreen button to maneuver the Drone with the iPhone's accelerometer--tilt it left and the Drone glides to the left, forward to move it forward, and so on. The right side onscreen button is a virtual joystick that increases and decreases the altitude, and also rotates the Drone. The advanced mode uses a single onscreen virtual joystick to control the Drone, and is not for the faint of heart (or finger). The battery level for the AR.Drone is also displayed on the iOS device screen. Interestingly, routers or an Internet connection are not necessary;
the Drone generates its own Wi-Fi network connection for communicating with the remote control device. The augmented reality comes into play via the front-facing camera on the Drone, streaming live (if choppy) footage to your iPhone/iPod Touch screen (at 640x480 pixels). Paired with that are optional integrated real-time special effects, adding a gamelike experience while flying the actual Drone. There's actually a second camera on the Drone, located underneath and connected to an Inertial Measurement Unit, which makes it possible for the AR.Drone to measure its horizontal speed and enable stationary helicopter-style flight without any end user assistance. It can also be used to stream video as well. Drone's whirring motors are way too loud to enable the device to be used as a mini spy camera. The Drone itself is made from a carbon tube structure and fiber-reinforced PA66 plastic. It comes with two hulls: one is an EPP hull to protect the propellers for indoor flight; the other is a shaped EPP (Expanded polypropylene) hull for outdoor flight, leaving the propellers exposed.
Under the hood is a Parrot P6 ARM926 468MHz processor, 128MB of DDR RAM, and 128MB flash memory running Linux OS.Drone is easy to pick up and fly (although also easy to crash, if in the wrong hands) judging from the long line of CNETers who have taken it for a spin. Unfortunately, the removable battery pack only runs for about 12 minutes of flight time, and requires 90 minutes to fully recharge, so multiple batteries are required for extended flight times. Before you get too excited about buzzing the neighborhood, note that the AR.Drone also isn't cheap. It's currently available exclusively from Brookstone for $299, and additional battery packs cost $29.95. (Note: As an added bonus, watch this week's Digital City podcast to see us test the AR.Drone out in the confines of our very tiny podcast studio.)Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request. The page may be temporarily unavailable or may no longer exist. Please take a moment to provide us feedback by clicking the button below and telling us what you were attempting to do when this error occurred.
Parrot launches 'camouflaged' AR Drone French wireless company Parrot has launched a new camouflaged version of its
best wifi range extender for ar drone popular quadricopter that can be flown using a smartphoneDrone 2.0 Elite Edition offers three different choices of camouflage for pilots – Jungle, Snow and Sand. In addition to the brand new hulls, the AR.Drone 2.0 Elite Edition is equipped with a set of propellers in two different colours for each version: beige and black for the Sand version, white and black for the Snow model and kaki and black for Jungle. Users can control the drone via WiFi from a smartphone or tablet running on iOS or Android. The drone also features an HD (1280x720) camera with video and photo storage, flight stabilisation and intuitive flight controls. It is powered by a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, offering up to 12 minutes flight time. "Whether shooting HD photography, racing with friends or just flying for fun with this exclusive design, AR.
Drone 2.0 pilots will discover new adventures and flying experiences," the company said in a statement. Drone 2.0 Elite Edition is available now at £279.99. The news comes as Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos reveals that the company is testing a new service called Amazon Prime Air that uses unmanned drones to deliver small packages. The drones in question are octocopters rather than quadrocopters, (meaning they have eight propellers rather than four), and are able to deliver packages to customers' doorsteps within 30 minutes of their order, according to Amazon. They operate autonomously and drop the items at the target locations thanks to GPS coordinates transmitted to them. Bezos said that the service probably won't be put into use for four or five years. Is Google Glass doomed? How hackers took over my computer Ambitious Chinese inventors take on crazy do-it-yourself projects The biggest companies in the world in 2015 The Fortune Global 500 has been released – the annual ranking of the largest
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