Dronalism – the use of drones to provide TV news footage – will be coming soon to a station near you. Or maybe not. TV journalists, like many early adopters of drone technology, face resistance from a variety of sources. At Interdrone, the International Drone Conference in Las Vegas, Sept. 9-11, a panel led by…
On its first day, Interdrone, the International Drone Conference in Las Vegas, (Sept. 9-11, revealed the passion, problems and potential of this new technology and movement. I’m calling drones a movement and not just a technology because a new video chip with enhanced refresh rates, say, is a new technology, but no one gets that…
(Originally published on Blogcritics.org) Drones were everywhere at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas this year. No, not male honeybees or parasitic loafers, but unmanned aircraft remotely or programmatically controlled. More specifically, drones with cameras attached. You could gain knowledge about drones at numerous vendor booths (many with cages for flying…
All men may be equal, but all revolutions are not. A lack of historical perspective on past revolutions may be causing the split among Americans in general and Conservatives in particular in evaluating what is happening in Egypt. Some fall into the camp which says, “Anywhere men are fighting for freedom, we should support them.”…
A slight motion attracts your attention and you glance out your fourth floor window. A pair of mechanical eyes is peeking in at you. Bad dream? No, it could be reality sooner than you think. Israeli scientist Amir Shapiro has designed a menagerie of wall climbing robots at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheeba, Israel,…
