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Best drones under £100, £200, £500 and £1000 to Buy in the UK for 2018

February 8, 2018February 5, 2018 theDroneInfobest drones, buy drones, cheap drones, drones, uk drones0 comment

DRONES don’t need to cost the earth (although the top models often do), so we’ve tracked down some of the best drones for any budget. Below you’ll find bargain drones under £100, right through to professional-grade flyers that cost well north of £1,000. The Parrot Swing has a unique X-wing design, and comes in well below £100 Best drones under £100 At below £100, there are seriously slim-pickings. You’ll either have to compromise on flight time/range, handling/stability, video quality – or all three. But if you’re just looking for a…

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New Drone Technology Could Turn Us All into Flying Pros

January 12, 2018January 10, 2018 theDroneInfo0 comment

Flying a drone is fun, but, and let’s be real, it’s a whole lot less fun when you keep crashing it into things. Those days could soon be behind us, however, if Leti has its way. The research institute wing of CEA is set to debut its latest anti-crash tech at CES this year, and had a few units on hand Sunday evening for curious would-be flyboys and flygirls to check out. Built onto a mass-market drone body, the prototypes may not look like much at first glance. But it’s…

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GoPro is Quitting Drone Business Blaming Tough Rules in US and Europe

January 9, 2018 theDroneInfodrones, GoPro0 comment

Hi-tech camera firm GoPro is quitting the drone market saying politicians and lawyers had made it impossible for it to be successful. The company said hundreds of jobs would be lost as it blamed “a hostile regulatory environment in Europe and the United States” for putting paid to its Karma drone venture. Air safety officials in the US, UK and continental Europe have raised concerns about drone strikes on commercial aircraft. Meanwhile, privacy campaigners and police forces have issued warnings about people using drones to spy on neighbours or other…

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The Best Black Friday Drone Deals Anywhere of 2017

November 16, 2017 theDroneInfodrones0 comment

Updated Daily: This is the ultimate and most up-to-date MEGA list of drones that are for sale on Black Friday 2017. You will find the biggest drone deals of the year below. Keep coming back to see updates. Laptops and video games dominate the holiday wish lists of many people, but a new entry is quickly making it into that list: drones. Drones are great for capturing aerial photos or videos, or even just as a toy that you can fly around in open spaces. However, drones don’t come cheap.…

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UW spinout WiBotic unveils its PowerPad wireless charging system for drones

October 19, 2017 theDroneInfoDrone Technology, drones0 comment

Seattle-based WiBotic today took the wraps off an integrated wireless charging pad for drones, as well as an onboard charger that weighs just 1.6 ounces. The two new products are part of the University of Washington spinout’s strategy to provide a system for charging up robotic aerial vehicles as they go about their business, untouched by human hands. The plug-and-play system is set up to send power wirelessly at short range from the pad’s transmitter to the charger’s receiver. Then the transmission is converted into electricity for a drone’s batteries.…

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DJI’s New AeroScope Helps Track and Identify Drones in the Air

October 18, 2017 theDroneInfodji, dji drones, Drone Technology0 comment

DJI has unveiled AeroScope, a new technology aimed at tracking and identifying DJI drones from afar. The new receiver will be able to identify the registration numbers of drones and plot them on a map using the existing communication links between a drone and its controller. “As drones have become an everyday tool for professional and personal use, authorities want to be sure they can identify who is flying near sensitive locations or in ways that raise serious concerns,” said Brendan Schulman, DJI’s Vice President for Policy and Legal Affairs.…

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Gadget: 5 of the best drones

September 27, 2017 theDroneInfo0 comment

We look at 5 of the best drones DJI Mavic Pro Drone, Jessops, £1040.77 The DJI Mavic Pro Drone is a small yet powerful drone that turns the sky into your creative canvass easily and without worry, helping you make every moment an aerial moment. Its compact size hides a high degree of complexity that makes it one of DJI’s most sophisticated flying cameras ever. 24 high-performance computing cores, an all-new transmission system with a 7km range, 5 vision sensors, and a 4K camera stabilized by a 3-axis mechanical gimbal,…

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DJI offers free drone rentals in photo contest, will award drones to winners

September 14, 2017 theDroneInfo0 comment

Why it matters to you Photographers with the itch to go aerial but without the right gear have the chance to win a DJI Mavic Pro in a contest involving free drone rentals. DJI and National Geographic are partnering for an aerial photo contest — but photographers may not even need to own a drone to enter. The My Mavic Contest runs through October 31 on Instagram, but unlike other aerial photography contests, DJI is offering free two-week rentals of the Mavic Pro to randomly selected applicants. The contest runs…

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DJI drones are getting an offline mode for secret flights

September 14, 2017 theDroneInfo0 comment

Although the army did not elaborate on its memo, it’s thought the decision may have been spurred by DJI’s data collection. You see, the company’s DJI GO 4 app reportedly uploads details of flight records by default — including telemetry, video and audio — to its servers in the US, China and Hong Kong. It also doesn’t help that hackers have previously shown they can break into the app and fiddle with the drones’ flight elevation restrictions. For its part, DJI told The NY Times it hasn’t been in touch…

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DJI launches bug bounty program for its software and drones

August 28, 2017 theDroneInfo0 comment

DJI wants security researchers to turn their attention to its software and drones and will pay for discovered bugs or exploits. Called The DJI Threat Identification Reward Program, the program aims to create a formal line of communication between researchers and hackers to the drone maker. The company will pay between $100 and $30,000 for qualifying bugs, “depending on the potential impact of the threat.” This program comes after a high profile ban by the U.S. Army grounded the company’s drones after unspecified “cyber vulnerabilities” were discovered. Immediately following that…