By Daniel Riley Quadrocopter L.L.C, located in Whitefish Montana was one of the first companies in the U.S. to offer ready-to-fly drones designed for aerial video and photography. After their founding in 2010, Quadrocopter quickly grew into a multi-million dollar company with over 10 employees. In the past, anyone wanting to utilize drones in their […]
By Robert Prestgard-Duke With persistent warfare around the globe and the continued use of landmines within these warzones there remains a continuous problem of having to deal with these unexploded devices. According to the United Nations there are more than 110 million active landmines scattered across 70 countries with many of these countries no longer […]
By Omar Kergaye According to Google’s Project Loon homepage, an estimated two thirds of the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. This figure is astonishingly high considering how reliant people today are on Internet access. Without the Internet, there would have been no way for Egyptian citizens, among other Middle Eastern countries, to […]
photo from April 25 Earthquake in Nepal Obama to make new push to shift control of drones from CIA to Pentagon – April 27, 2015 Last week the United States Government admitted that a drone strike earlier this year in January was responsible for the deaths of two Western Al-Qaeda hostages, including American citizen […]
By Maxwel Stocking Image: http://www.gizmag.com/australian-drone-startup-flirtey-wings-overseas/33656/ In 2011, four friends at the University of Technology – Sydney raised money to buy 300 textbooks and rent them out to users, generally students. That year they rented all 300 textbooks and had 18,000 hits on their website. Zookal was born. Since then, Zookal was has grown to service nearly […]
By Nicolas Goller As drones become more popular and more widespread, they continue to be held back by the substantial amount of power needed to keep them aloft. Replacing batteries every half an hour is inconvenient at best. The innovative charging pad from German start-up Skysense looks to eliminate the hassle involved with keeping a drone aloft. Skysense […]
Drones fly over Final Four events, raising security concerns— 7 April 2015 According to Homeland Security, drones were spotted flying over crowds on at least three separate occasions during the Final Four events of March Madness. On one occasion, police spotted a drone flying over a packed crowd in White River State Park in Indianapolis, […]
Photo: Artist illustration of a medical delivery drone, courtesy of Yahoo! News Amazon tests delivery drones at secret Canada site after US frustration – 30 March 2015 Amazon has followed through on claims that it will move its drone testing operations outside of the United States, following frustration with the FAA in obtaining permits. Amazon […]
Drone Strike Reportedly Results in Death of Al-Qaida Leader in Yemen – April 14, 2015 Al-Qaida released a statement this past Tuesday, stating that one of its members, Ibrahim al-Rubaish, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen. Al-Rubaish was a leader of al-Qaida, and according to the Associated Press, was considered the “main idealogue […]
By Marcus Foote Top Flight Technologies is a start-up company out of MIT with significant experience in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The team is comprised of many leaders from the Federal Aviation Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and other aerospace and software innovators. Top Flight Technologies is aimed to decimate the […]