These Tiny House-Cleaning Fairy Drones May Just Make Life Perfect
If you look closely, you can see the tiny magical fairies. (Photo: Electrolux Design Lab) Cleaning your house is probably the most boring thing you can choose to do with your time. But finally, a...
View ArticleMystery Drone Crash Misses NYC Businessman By Mere Feet
A German drone. (Photo: Getty) Shrouded in mystery and cloaked in WTF, a small helicopter drone crashed onto the ground just a few feet away from a businessman on the East Side of Manhattan during rush...
View ArticleWas That Your Drone That Almost Clocked a Businessman? The NYPD Wants a Word
View from the drone. (Photo: WABC) Remember that mysterious drone that plopped out of the sky and came within a few feet of bopping a businessman on the head? Well, the New York Police Department would...
View ArticleBest Tech Events This Week (World Summit, NY Tech Meetup, Drones, Israel to...
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties....
View ArticleStop Delivering Stuff Using Drones Because It’s ‘Just Ridiculous’
Um can u not? (Photo: Zookal) Now that we're past "[X company] now accepts Bitcoins," the latest trend in annoying PR tactics is announcing that you're in the "delivery via drone" business. The...
View ArticleSince Nothing Good Could Come From This, Colorado Might Ban Hunters from...
Banned? (Photo: File) Already foretelling the problems this could cause, Colorado is considering banning hunters from using drones to help them spot deer and other game. Under federal and state...
View ArticleFour Knuckleheads Arrested for Using a Drone to Drop Contraband In a Prison Yard
The drone in question. (Photo: WALB) First it was pizza and then sushi, so it was inevitable that contraband were going to be the next thing to be delivered by drones. A group of four crooks in Georgia...
View ArticleHide Your Dogs: Amazon Plots to Deliver Packages Via Drone
Look out below. (Photo: YouTube) In what is allegedly not an April Fools stunt launched five months prematurely, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon plans to start delivering packages by drone. He took to...
View ArticleeBay CEO Sassily Dismisses Amazon’s Drone Idea As ‘Fantasy’
Thinks Amazon is stupid. (Photo: Bloomberg) Everyone is excited about Amazon's improbable plan to deliver packages by drones, except for one person: eBay CEO John Donahoe. Drinking a gallon of haterade...
View ArticleMysterious Drone Zipping Around Fatal Crash Scene Prompts FAA Investigation
This was probably the type of drone. (Photo: File) A mysterious drone buzzing around a fatal car cash in Connecticut has prompted an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities...
View ArticleSure, Why Not: United Arab Emirates Might Start Delivering Passports Via Drone
One passport, comin' right up. (Photo: Getty) Officials in the United Arab Emirates are pushing to use more technology in government services, and they've decided to do so by using drones to deliver...
View ArticleFacebook Wants to Build 11,000 Drones to Bring Internet to Africa
Check out this atmospheric satellite a.k.a. FACEBOOK DRONE. (Screengrab: YouTube) It's a bird! It's a plane! Nope — it's a Facebook drone. The social media site reportedly wants to use drones to bring...
View ArticleNew Drones Can Steal Information Straight From Your Smartphone
That? Oh, that's just a mosquito, now tell me more about your top secret project. Drones are incredibly versatile, able to do everything from delivering beer to, er, killing innocent people :(. And...
View ArticleJapanese Inventor Creates Drone-Powered Quidditch Snitch
Yer a wizard, Harry. (Photo via lab.rekimoto.org) Dust off your Gryffindor cloak, because real-life Quidditch is one step closer to being a reality. A Japanese inventor has created the Hoverball, a...
View ArticleCriminals Using Drones To Find Marijuana Farms, Steal Their Crop
It's coming for your weed. (Wikimedia Commons) Criminal gangs in the UK's Shropshire county are using drones to locate marijuana farms, and then blackmailing the farms' owners or straight up stealing...
View ArticleAmazon to Add 9,000 Robots to Workforce, Ending Great Robot Depression
Robots, robots everywhere (YouTube). Were you hoping Amazon would go away so you could stop buying things you don't need solely because they come in two days? Oh well. Amazon is about to multiply their...
View ArticleLAPD Adds a Couple of Drones To Its Arsenal, Tells Public Not To Be Alarmed
Nothing to fear, back inside everyone. (Photo via Draganfly) When drug runners started using drones to scout out marijuana growing fields that were ripe for the raiding, it was only a matter of time...
View ArticleWoman Violently Assaults Teen Boy Flying Drone Over Beach
Ms. Mears assaulting Mr. Haughwout. (Screengrab: LiveLeak.com) A 17-year-old boy flying his drone over a beach ended up getting called a "pervert" and having a stranger's fingers shoved into his mouth....
View ArticleMartha Stewart Is Now Operating a Drone Out of Her Upstate Lair
Almost as good as a drone (Photo via Flickr). Ever wonder what Martha Stewart's house looks like? Here are 31 drone pics to show you. Ms. Stewart posted a slideshow of aerial photos of her home and...
View ArticleAmazon Is Asking the FAA to Bend the Law for Their Drone Program
Delivery drones, coming soon to a suburban neighborhood near you. (Photo: YouTube) When Jeff Bezos first announced his evil plan to start a drone delivery program for all the precious goods you order...
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