by Scott Simmie | Aug 30, 2017 | Aerial Video, DJI, Drones, News
Hey, Congrats DJI!!! Not only do you command an estimated 70 per cent of global consumer and prosumer drone sales, you now have a nice, shiny EMMY® Award! (Or at least you will when the hardware is handed out next April.) The company won the award for Technology and...
by Scott Simmie | Aug 29, 2017 | Drones, Foldable Drone, News, The Buzz
Remember Lily? The cutesy, waterproof, tracking drone? It was a hugely popular crowd-funded project, but the company folded in January. Online, people voiced lament, concern whether they’d get refunds, anger that the video portraying the product included footage...
by Scott Simmie | Aug 22, 2017 | #DronesForGood, Aerial Cameras, Aerial Photography, Aerial Video, DJI, Drones, Education, News, The Buzz
Drones have played another potential first, gathering samples of gas and collecting thermal imaging from an active volcano. It recently took place at Italy’s Mount Etna, located in Sicily. Two DJI models, an Inspire 1 and a Matrice 600, were involved in the...
by David MacQuarrie | Aug 15, 2017 | Drones, News, Photography, Research
In her classic essay on the marvel of total solar eclipses, US writer Annie Dillard says a partial eclipse bears the same relation to a total eclipse as “flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane.” Monday’s total eclipse already has many people in the...
by Stephen Smith | Jul 31, 2017 | DJI, Events, News
DJI announced today that the RoboMaster 2017 will be livestreamed exclusively on Twitch. Here’s the announcement. July 31, 2017 – DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today announced that the RoboMaster 2017 competition...
by Scott Simmie | Jul 18, 2017 | #DronesForGood, Drones, News, Research
It you haven’t seen the hashtag before, you have now. #DronesForGood and #DronesAreGood are easy ways on Twitter to pull up some very cool cases where unmanned aerial vehicles are doing far more than just taking nice imagery (not that there’s anything...
