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A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator

Posted by timothy on from the you'd-still-need-a-high-allowance dept.

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."

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  1. Hand assembled? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

  2. Re:The real question is: by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    You want infra red for that - oh wait...

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  3. Re:Cheaper than a predator by MrQuacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure they do. One moves a fat ass cross-country, the other moves a fat ass cross-country-club.

  4. holy crap by Jyunga · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two Canadian technology posts on slashdot in two days.... WE ARE THE NEXT CHINA!

  5. oh, the abuse by Thad+Zurich · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can you say "Paparazzi"? I knew you could.

  6. It only has to carry a laser to paint a target by Marrow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real damage would come from much further away.