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At CES 2012, Parrot launched the second version of its popular AR.Drone quadricopter that can be controlled by Wi-Fi using an iPhone or iPad.
The Parrot 'AR.Drone 2.0' features a new high-definition (HD) camera, video recording, flight data sharing, a new piloting mode, and increased stability.
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10 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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British inventors have managed to devise a new way of planting trees in devastated areas without having to go through the regular channels. They have created a helicopter-based delivery system that lets tree seedlings wrapped in small plastic cones fall. C-Questor of Weybridge, Surrey is behind the innovation, which ... |
31 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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It has always been difficult for any kind of flying machine to fly close to the ground in crowded environment conditions, meaning close to buildings, pillars, trees or cables. But a group of technicians from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh led by roboticist Sanjiv Singh have managed to build an uncrewed ... |
10 November 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Man's desire to fly is known to have existed ever since the earliest recorded history. To fulfill his dream, man turned to nature and tried to copy the winged creatures, most of the times such attempts ending in disasters. We only have to look at today's flying machines to understand to that we have never r... |
7 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Igor Sikorsky is generally credited for spearheading the development of helicopters, but the man who envisioned the first vertical-flight machine was Leonardo da Vinci, more than five centuries before a helicopter was set in motion. Gennai Yanagiasawa however, a 75 year old Japanese helicopter developer, is credited ... |
14 May 2008
07:51 GMT |
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The importance of helicopters in air transportation services is given mainly by the advantages over airplanes, namely the capability to take off and land vertically and hover at a fixed point in the air. However, the biggest disadvantage is their speed. For example, a 12 passenger helicopter can reach a top velocity ... |
30 April 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Chopper, as its name implies, is a side-scrolling helicopter game, much like the Desert Strike games only not played from a top-down perspective. Although the game boasts 2D visuals, it does feature 3D surround sound with the release of version 1.2, which also includes new missions, bringing the total number up to se... |
3 April 2008
16:51 GMT |
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"When energy goes good..." Even though it doesn't sound right, that's exactly what Midé Technology has succeeded in doing, converting pesky helicopter vibrations into electrical energy to track its rotor and make dynamic balance adjustments while in midflight, a procedure which usually takes place only on the... |
5 March 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Spring 2008 has a lot of games for everyone owning at least one platform. For example, EA has FIFA Street 3 featuring stylized 'action hero' players, while renowned RPG developer, Square Enix, is offering DS owners Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. More recently however, we've stumbled u... |
20 November 2007
07:10 GMT |
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OK, this sounds pretty funny but it is actually a very serious piece of news which concerns our security (not on the web, the real one). Read this: the US army is afraid that some of its war robots such as helicopters, tanks and other killing machines equipped with software technologies can be controlled by anyone wh... |
8 November 2007
04:41 GMT |
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This monster is much bigger that any helicopter ever built: the Soviet Mil V-12 was a doubled version of Mi-6 fitted with greater fixed-wing airlift of An-22 and Il-76. It used a double set of Mi-6 dynamics: two sets of Mi-6 engines, gearboxes and lifting rotors side-by-side, with small overlap. Rotor rpm decreased t... |
6 September 2007
09:41 GMT |
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G2 Games have just announced a special offer for airborne combat genre fans: those who have preordered Enemy Engaged 2 or have purchased it in its first week of release will be getting a free DVD documentary (depending on stock availability): Hellfire & Brimstone: The Attack Helicopter. The DVD will look deep at the ... |
29 May 2007
03:13 GMT |
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HeliBots are tiny helicopters used in reconnaissance missions by really bored people (Ok, and probably by kids too). You must've heard about the WoWee DragonFly and Micro Mosquito HeliBots. Well, here's another cute one that should help you do some effective helibot-mapping around your obscure workplace. Th... |
1 May 2007
05:27 GMT |
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With GTA IV Debut Trailer released, a thousand questions began to arise. "Did it seem to you like Liberty City was an authentically sized city? A problem that I had with San Andreas was that you could drive to a coast in two minutes. Do you think it will be different this time?" (via Kotaku). And isn't it true? ... |
25 April 2007
03:30 GMT |
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