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A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator
An anonymous reader writes with this envy-inspiring bit from Gizmodo on the Aeryon Scout Quadrotor: "The drone, packing a camera that can ID a human from almost two miles away (using a standard digital cam or thermal vision), can be hand-assembled. Once in the sky, it gyro-orients itself to track whatever it is you're tracking, can hit speeds of over 30 MPH, and is all controllable with a touch remote. Tap a target, and watch the drone zoom over. It's not going to rain down any Hellfire missiles, but hey, it only weighs a kilogram."
"can be hand-assembled..."
I can't be the only one whose first thought was, "Well, I can understand not wanting to use a high level language in its firmware, but we've had assemblers for a long time now and they're really pretty good by now."
You want infra red for that - oh wait...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
sigh, can I take a shot at this joke please
Apple announced its partnership with the military today called iWings for iPads
Sure they do. One moves a fat ass cross-country, the other moves a fat ass cross-country-club.
Two Canadian technology posts on slashdot in two days.... WE ARE THE NEXT CHINA!
It can refuel itself and with little more than a dirty sock it can track a target for miles. Best of all you can deploy hundreds of them for less money than a single drone.
No hellfire missiles, much cheaper than a predator. Lame.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?