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John Markoff e-signs his book, “Machines of Loving Grace,” on an iPad Pro

I caught up with author and New York Times science writer John Markoff today over lunch, and asked him to electronically sign his book, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground. Neither of us really knows what that means, so we used Skitch, and iPad Pro, and a screenshot of my purchased Kindle-version book cover. ...

Raw analog FPV footage from a flight with a Blade Nano QX FPV (a 22 gram / 0.78 oz FPV quadcopter) from a drone-themed gathering at Greylock VC in San Francisco organized by Chris McCann / Greylock. Participants included Adam Bry (Skydio), Andreas Raptopoulos (Matternet), Antoine Balaresque (Lily), Buddy Michini (Airware), Dan Burton (DroneBase), Dr. ...

Greylock VC drones dinner

Greylock Partners hosted a drone-industry discussion group over dinner tonight in San Francisco. I love events like this because they bring together so many interesting representatives of the emerging industry to chat informally about how to work together to help the greater industry to succeed. I brought a tiny Blade Nano QX FPV (a 22 gram / ...

DJI’s RoboMasters RC battlefield competition might be going global

On December 18, DJI started hinting on its Instagram account at the impending announcement of its new flagship retail store in Shenzhen (using screenshots of 3D model generated using aerial shots processed by Pix4D). A day later, images started to appear on DJI social media, followed by an official press release dated December 20. The new retail store is gorgeous, ...

It’s hard to beat DJI’s Black Friday sale. Until November 30, a Phantom 3 Professional w/extra battery is on sale for $1,159, and Phantom 3 Standard is $599! The extra battery retails at $149, making a P3 Pro w/extra battery normally cost $1408. Meanwhile, Amazon is selling the P3 Pro for $1,129, and an extra battery ...

The Spinido DJI Battery dock for Phantom 2 and 3 looks like it could be a great accessory for Phantom owners. Compatibility with both the P2 and P3 is bizarre, though, since the connectors are different. This could be a great alternative to DJI’s 4-battery Charging Hub. Both this battery dock and the DJI one ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVbqveNe6c?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] The wonderful folks at Tested have put up the video of my talk from the Tested Live Show, which took place at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on October 23, 2015. The talk is about our Good Morning America trip to Iceland to broadcast live from the Holuhraun volcano eruption. I gave ...

Flying drones over volcanoes (from Tested Live Show)

The wonderful folks at Tested have put up the video of my talk from the Tested Live Show, which took place at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on October 23, 2015. The talk is about our Good Morning America trip to Iceland to broadcast live from the Holuhraun volcano eruption. I gave a longer version of this ...

At Drone World Expo this week, DJI’s VP of Policy and Legal Affairs, Brendan Schulman, made an presentation about DJI’s new GEO geofencing system. It looks like a huge leap forward, and will allow operators to override geofencing information once an accountability trail is established. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)