Kelsey D. Atherton
at 10:35 AM Feb 3 2016
Drones // 

While drones date back to the first World War, it's the modern era that's really seen them take off in the home market. Cheap electronics, powerful batteries, useful cameras, and easy integration of multiple wireless technologies make it possible for someone to walk into an Apple store, plunk down $200, and start flying a drone with their phone. Almost none of that would have made sense to someone in 1976, when the NASA Ames Research Center commissioned a study from the Lockheed Missiles & Space Company on “Civil Uses Of Remotely Piloted Aircraft.” That study, in all its glorious 328 pages, is available online, and it's a past glimpse at the future we're now living in.

Clay Dillow
at 07:26 AM Feb 29 2012
Tech // 

In this day and age, it makes sense to think that we should be transitioning to wireless technologies, right? Leaving cables lying around, whether it be under the vastness of the ocean, or simply through the middle of your hallway at home, isfraughtwith danger, not to mention inconvenience. Our government wants to build an extensive network of fibre optic cable around Australia - but why not just jump ahead and cut straight to wireless. Well, the answer to the question is not as simple as that.

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