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Drone, Drone, Everywhere a Drone -- at CES (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the it's-not-superman-and-it's-not-an-airplane-so-it-must-be-a-drone dept.

One thing Timothy noticed at CES was that there were drone vendors all over the place. Drones are obviously one of the hot-hot toy/gadget trends of the moment. The Drone that won 'Best Robot or Drone in Show' was the camera-carrying, "follows you like a dog on a (Bluetooth 3) leash" AirDog. They already had a crazy-sucessful KickStarter campaign that led to a large stack of pre-orders, so don't count on getting your very own AirDog right away, even if you have $1300 to spend on one.

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  1. ANOTHER Autoplay video?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT ALREADY YOU PACK OF ASSHOLES

    Dont you get that your audience hates this shit and usually for very good reason?

  2. Fun with AirDog by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Purchase three AirDog drones
    2) Velcro-strap each drone's follow-me remote onto the next AirDog drone
    3) Press the "launch" button on all three remotes simultaneously
    4) Enjoy the resulting interpretive dance

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  3. Fuck autoplaying video by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is all.

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    1. Re:Fuck autoplaying video by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And you know what, they even managed to fuck it up beyond that. I don't see any video, I only get audio. And it doesn't even have the grace to autoplay immediately, instead deciding to do so a few seconds after the page has loaded, once you've already scrolled down to see the comments, leaving you wondering where the sound is coming from.

      Slashdot, please stop treating your audience like click-bait hungry idiots.

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    2. Re:Fuck autoplaying video by Beerdood · · Score: 2

      So I click on the comments. Initially there's some worry when I see the space for the video. "Uh oh, is that gonna autoplay?" I think. But the worry goes away and it's peace and tranquility when I see the acute triangle embedded within the image. "Ah, it's not going to autoplay. It's waiting for my prompt to start the video". But after about a second, the not-so-cute triangle goes away, and the video starts autoplaying! ARRGHHH! But wait, there's more! If you're fortunate enough to see the ad before the video, then you won't even get an option to pause that ad OR disable the audio! You'll pretty much have to kill your tab or browser to kill the sound. Fantastic for those of you at work that have your audio turned up that thought slashdot was safe to browse without bringing attention to your cubicle-mates

      As a software tester of sorts, I'd like to believe that the delay between the page load and video autoplay is just some poor programming or latency issue or something technical in nature. But I'm almost positive that some spawn of Satan was on the design team here and thought "Hey, I got a great idea! Instead of just starting the video right away like other click bait sites or waiting for the user to manually start the video (crazy! right?), we'll put a still image in there for a second and a play button. Then right about the time the user scrolls down to the comments past the video, we'll autoplay the video without giving them any option to pause or mute the ad that comes up!"

      Now excuse me while I email youtube to tell them about how great their embedded ads are in their videos

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    3. Re:Fuck autoplaying video by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 2

      (actually, that's *.ooyala.com... too many Ls)