Category: drone

Yuneec’s Breeze 4K drone is a small selfie drone in the world of giants

Udi Tirosh

With both GoPro and DJI announcing their new small flagships (can you say small flagship?), Yuneec’s new drone announcements kinda went under the radar. Rather than making a full fledged, full capacity drone, Yuneec madea small “selfie” drone – The Breeze 4k – that is limited in features, but has a low price tag. Yuneec is known […]

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Get your GoPro airborne by shoving it into a giant Nerf football and throwing it

John Aldred

Drones have become the go-to method for getting you GoPro up in the air. But in more and more locations, new regulations limit where we can fly. But what other options do we have? Well, you could gaffer tape it to a coat hanger and swing it around your head on a piece of string. Or, […]

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GoPro’s Karma Drone is Here

Eric Reagan

GoPro finally took the complete wraps off its Karma drone that has been teasing for oh so long. There are a couple of huge wins that put the Karma on a separate plane from DJI Phantom drones. First, it looks like it is much more compact than other the Phantom and other similarly-sized drones. The […]

GoPro’s Karma Drone is finally here and it has folding arms

John Aldred

GoPro have today finally unleashed the Karma drone on the world. Originally slated for release much earlier in the year, it seemed like it may never actually happen. After a few teases over the past couple of weeks, though, GoPro seem to have made good. Like GoPro’s cameras, the biggest feature of the Karma is […]

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Is Yuneec’s Breeze the Ultimate Selfie Drone?

Eric Reagan

Yuneec recently launched its compact Breeze drone that is controlled by an app on a mobile device. The target audience is clearance the novice user with its five automatic modes that essentially allow the drone to fly itself. The Yuneec Breeze can fly indoors and outdoors. It has optical flow and infrared positioning sensors that allow […]

Australian man almost drowns while trying to save his drone

John Aldred

Victoria Police have reported that a 22 year old Australian man has been pulled from the water at St Kilda Pier. Why was he in the water? Well, he was attempting to rescue his drone. He’d been flying the drone with a friend to shoot photos as part of a project when it suddenly fell into the water. Attempts […]

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8 year old girl knocks a drone out of the sky with a golf ball

John Aldred

Drones are usually pretty good at staying stable. Especially when they have 6 or 8 props rather than the traditional 4 of a quadcopter. With Hexacopters and Octocopters you can even lose a blade, and it’ll still fly relatively well. At least long enough for you to land it. Apparently, though, not when hit by a […]

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Did GoPro just leak photos of the Hero5, Karma drone and a new handheld gimbal on their website?

John Aldred

GoPro are officially announcing their new Karma drone on September 19th, perhaps the Hero5, too. GoPro have kept both a very closely guarded secret for months. It looks like somebody at the GoPro website got a little eager, though. For a short time, GoPro’s European websites displayed an image of a drone, a strange looking camera, […]

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GoPro’s Karma Drone expected in just two weeks

John Aldred

A teaser posted to GoPro’s YouTube suggests that the Karma Drone may finally be coming in a couple of weeks. We’ve known for a long time that GoPro were planning to release a drone. We did expect an official announcement much earlier in the year. Now that summer’s nearing its end, GoPro might be a little late […]

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