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August 28, 2008

Draganflyer X6 - UAV Helicopter Takes Aerial Photos and Videos!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this Draganflyer X6, a multi-functioning UAV Helicopter that can take aerial photos and videos is HD quality. The Draganflyer X6 is a remotely operated, unmanned, miniature helicopter designed to carry wireless video cameras and still cameras. Operat ... More

Posted in A+Featured Gadgets, Consumer, Cool, Design, Digital Cameras, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Video, photography by max on the August 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
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July 16, 2008

DIY Homemade Submarine made from Metal Barrels!

Remember they Chinese guy who made the helicopter? Well, here’s another Chinese guy who made a freakin’ submarine out of old metal barrels. Talk about eco-friendly, this submarine probably is the most green submarine ever made. Way cool huh? I am gonna go make mine too now and start a new business. Tao Xiangli made the 1.6 tonnes subma ... More

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July 3, 2008

Future Hovering Spy Drones Reviewed!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s an interesting video on future hovering spy drones.  Well, my hopes are there are no wars in the future and that these future hovering spy drones will only serve to prevent wars.  Where are my tax dollars damn Uncle Sam? This video shows, which i ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Government, Industrial, News, Robots, security, technology by max on the July 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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June 19, 2008

DIY Helicopter in China!

Wow, check out this DIY helicopter, it looks all homemade and everything.  The cost of this helicopter?  Only $3000 USD but be careful, if you fall, you are surely to die a horrible death. .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } .gallery im ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Gadgets by max on the June 19th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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January 25, 2008

Flying stick cam

Obviously this will only be any good outside unless you live a huge house, but the idea is really cool as the unit is self powered and requires no batteries at all. While in the air it can lift like a helicopter and has built in face detection which will mean that whatever the subject is, it will remain in focus. As the power reduces it will begi ... More

Posted in Audio, Business Ideas, Cameras, Consumer, Cool, Funny, Gadgets by david on the January 25th, 2008 at 6:00 am
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November 24, 2007

Build your own helicopter

It’s true that with enough determination that a person can do almost anything, in the case of Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24 years old physics undergraduate from Nigeria, he did just that. He always wanted his own helicopter, but did not want to spend the couple of million dollars on buying one, so he went down to the local scrap yard and bui ... More

Posted in Auto, Cool, Flying, Funny, Travel by david on the November 24th, 2007 at 11:00 am
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October 23, 2007

DIY HACK - 24 year old makes Homemade Helicopters!

Wow, this 24 year old from Nigeria built his own helicopter! Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts [via] Yahoo Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educ ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Gadgets, Hack, Industrial, Travel by max on the October 23rd, 2007 at 11:37 pm
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April 21, 2007

Build a Super Sky Cycle and jump that traffic jam!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out these Super Sky Cycles you can build which are a motorcycle/helicopter hybrid. Don’t worry about traffic jams anymore. This SkyCycle is a cross between a motorcycle and a gyroplane. It can race to 55 mph on the ground and more than 100 mph in the ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, Projects by max on the April 21st, 2007 at 9:29 pm
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November 28, 2006

Automatic Pilot Helicopters - MIT profs create autonomous UAVs

The MIT Team is using DraganFlyer helicopters, Gentoo Linux, Gumstix, and Vicon Motion Capture Systems and has sponsorship from Boeing. Creating a robot that can manage to fly around a room on its own without hitting a wall is a mean feat to pull off, but that’s exactly what a team of professors at MIT have managed to do. Their multiple-UAV ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Industrial, Travel by max on the November 28th, 2006 at 8:19 am
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November 25, 2006

AirScooter II Ultralight Helicopter for 50Gs!

View This Video on You Tube You gotta check out the supposedly $50,000 personal helicopter. It is now becoming more and more practically for people to actually own a personal helicopter. The only thing is, it doesn’t look like it’s too sturdy for any kind of bad wheather. Well, looks are not everything, maybe it will perform under ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, Gadgets, Travel, Video by max on the November 25th, 2006 at 8:32 am
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October 11, 2006

HMLA 269th (Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron) Iraq War, War on Terrorism

Okay, here’s some real marine helicopter…hehe…cool… View This Video on Google bob_marley, Government, Government, helicopter, hippies, hippies_rule, HMLA, iraq, iraq_war, Marine, peace, terrorism, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More

Posted in Government, Video by max on the October 11th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
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September 22, 2006

Micro Mosquito Helicopter

Here’s a cool mosquito helicopter that is better than the one from Radio Shack… …using the ingenious BladeRunner double-propeller system which relies on a coaxial rotor to make piloting the chopper as easy as stroking a tame chipmunk. A three-channel digital remote controls up & down motion, forward & reverse, turning ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Robots, Travel by max on the September 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 pm
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Radio Shack Rescue Helicopter

Here’s a review of Radio Shack Rescue Helicopter which can fly indoors pretty nicely. The only thing is that it is very unstable and cannot land…also you cannot really go forward or backward…just hover and randomly it goes… View This Video on Google Consumer, Consumer, helicopter, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, RC, R ... More

Posted in Consumer, Microcontroller, Robots, Travel by max on the September 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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