Tag: Drones
The town of Deer Trail, Colorado hates drones, and has a plan to make sure no robotic eyes in the sky are snooping on its citizens’ lives: guns! We’re all for allowing people to protect themselves against surveillance, but this just seems insane: an ordinance proposed by Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel would allow the town to […]
Out of all of the social media apps available, Tinder is the most fascinating. For the unfamiliar, here’s how it works: link your Facebook to the app for a photo and a few other details, set a search radius and preferred gender(s), and swipe the endless stream of potential partners left for no, or right […]
A hundred years before our military began regularly employing drones for the surveillance and murder of people around the world, George R. Lawrence, an oddball photographer from Chicago, was building early drone prototypes to conduct surveillance on his own turf. Only his version, which in 1905 he dubbed the “captive airship,” wasn’t meant to harm or gather military intelligence. Its […]
It’s only a matter of time before 5 Pointz is gone, and whether they intended to or not, a video production company called Aerial VP has created a fitting tribute to the graffiti sacred grounds. The footage, shot from a hexacopter drone, is something to behold, even if the editing sucks and the soundtrack is […]
As drones, CCTV cameras, and various other surveillance technologies continue to proliferate in New York City and around the world, one city has taken it a definitive, if temporary, stance against the eyes in the sky: Iowa City, Iowa. City Council voted unanimously to approve the first reading of a bill that would outlaw drones, traffic […]
It’s hard to say whether this development in drone-tech is awesome or terrifying. Awesome: This drone’s got mad skillz on the b-ball court. Terrifying, because IT’S OPERATED BY MIND CONTROL. Or is that also awesome? Developed by French firm Parrot (in collaboration with an engineering team from the University of Minnesota), the thought-controlled AR.Drone quad-rotor helicopter […]
I suppose it was always going to come to this. Deutsche Bahn, the company that runs Germany’s railways, plans to use drones equipped with super-sensitive infrared cameras in an attempt to catch graffiti writers in the act of painting trains. According to the BBC, the drones, which Deutsche Bahn hopes to test soon, will be virtually […]
Attend South Africa’s OppiKoppi music fest this summer will be greeted by perhaps history’s friendliest UAVs: a fleet of drones that will drop beers by parachute to anyone who orders them. In the video below, the flying booze bots are operated by remote control, but festival organizers eventually hope to make them fully automatic, with […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Addie Wagenknecht explains her project PUSSYDRONES. Since around 2006, I have been heavily working within a sort of purely utilitarian open source space with projects like Lasersaur and Artifact of Code. In this very personal way, which I suppose might look nonsensical and […]
Somewhere in Louisiana, there’s a home-made drone whirling through the sky towards an unsuspecting pig. Engineers/farmers Cy Brown and James Palmer call it the “Dehogiflier.” When the R/C airplane + thermal imaging camera COMBO OF DEATH spots the pig, it’s only a matter of time before a quick shot from a rifle with a night vision scope takes oinky […]
