AR.Drone
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As any professional photographer knows, setting up lights can be a hassle. Before too long, however, it may be possible to use hovering autonomous drones as light sources. In fact, that's just what a team of researchers has already done. -
Notable hacker Samy Kamkar recently built SkyJack, a modified Parrot AR.Drone 2 that automatically seeks out the wireless signals of other UAVs, disconnects them from their owners, and then takes control of them, even while in flight. -
Parrot has announced a new peripheral for its AR.Drone 2.0, a black box-style Flight Recorder with 4 GB of Flash storage to record GPS and flight data, as well as locally save about 2 hours of HD footage recorded on the drone's onboard camera. -
Robotics developer Falkor Systems has developed a dance piece in which a human dancer performs with an autonomous AR Drone quadcopter. -
The Fighting Walrus Radio is an attachment for iOS devices, that allows for much greater range when flying the AR Drone quadcopter. -
A research team from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has modified a commercially-available quadrocopter and turned it into an autonomous, flying running partner for solo joggers. -
Parrot has updated its popular AR Drone, adding a 720p camera to the high-flying gadget. -
The Drone Station app lets users remotely pilot an AR.Drone quadricopter using video game controllers on a Mac. -
Parrot's AR.Drone now supports Android, bada and Symbian platforms. -
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The Parrot AR.Drone is a four-rotor helicopter that you control from iPhone or iPod Touch using Wi-Fi and augmented-reality streaming video.
