Kelly Shores

The Sunflower Home Awareness System promises a new approach to home security. “The system consists of these two parts,” founder Alex Pachikov said. “There are really advanced sensors that you place around your property. These can detect motion, vibration and sound. In the event that you want to take a closer look at something, you can then deploy a drone to investigate what’s happening and send ba...

Yesterday we published an article about how Walt Disney World is using drones as “digital fireworks” in the sky. Today we have a great follow up to that article with this news about Intel using 500 drones, piloted by one person, to break a world record and prove that drones can make a beautiful spectacle in the air. Intel announced their second branded drone, the Intel Shooting Star, b...

Disney has filed patents as far back as 2014 to use drones for different types of entertainment. One of the biggest use cases is to use up to 500 drones, flying in a preset pattern, to create three dimensional images in the sky. Disney has been testing this at different parks and the results are amazing! Check out the article and video in the link below to see what it looks like to have 500 drones...

The Seattle Space Needle is a world famous icon and architectural wonder. It has been photographed and video recorded for years. Today, more and more people are trying to shoot video of the Space Needle with drones and more and more people are failing at the task! Check out this video of the third drone to crash into the Space Needle in recent months!

DJI recently released a note to its dealers to tell them that the DJI Phantom 4 as well as the DJI Phantom 3 will no longer be produced. There is still inventory, so these will be available to buy for a while longer. This comes about two months after the announcement of the DJI Phantom 4 Pro. It also comes as something of a surprise because the Phantom 4 is very popular. Check out the actual note ...

A company called DroneSAR is developing an application for drone search and rescue. The software is being developed as part of a joint venture involving Donegal Mountain Rescue and DJI. The app is used in places where people have gone missing and uses sophisticated mapping and detection algorithms to help locate the people faster than traditional search and rescue. To learn more about this softwar...

Amazon has made it clear that the company intends to use drones in its business. The company is developing a system that allows drones to deliver small packages to its customers. But in addition to package delivery, Amazon has filed a patent for small drones that can “ride along” with regular citizens or police and help them with tasks. With police, the drones would be programmed to re...

Lily, the crowd funded selfie camera drone has officially decided to stop moving forward with the launch of its product. The founds wrote a letter on the home page of their web site outlining why they are making this move. Among the reasons are problems with supply chain and manufacturing contracts with vendors. Lily was a very high profile crowdfunded company that actually raised a large amount o...

The manufacture of drones is a long, tedious and detailed process. And with camera drones, there is often a need to test the recording devices and cameras within the drones. Sometimes the workers in these factories record test footage and then forget to delete the results before they box up the drone and ship it out! This article shows footage and pictures from just such an incident that was left ...

Concerns about drone safety have risen as more and more people are becoming pilots and the air space around things like forest fires and other natural disasters becomes more crowded. While there are those who believe that the only way to take a drone out of the air is with a shotgun, others have come up with more sophisticated methods for stopping unwanted air traffic. One such method is a small h...

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is over and many people were very excited about the announcements that were made regarding drone technology in 2017. There were some big announcements and here are 5 that seemed to stand out. First, the selfie drone market is not going away. This category seems to be on the rise. Second, we could actually see a drone that will carry people like a taxi. Third, DJ...

The DJI Mavic is really amazing. So much so that many people are gushing about it online with all kinds of praise. This article is really just a love letter to the drone that changed the author’s life. The author of this article goes through all the virtues and details about the drone that make it a great choice for new pilots and experienced pilots alike! Check out the article below. https:...