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Smooth Hyperlapse from bumpy GoPro

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Dronies Are The New Selfies

Make way in your Instagram feed for flying-camera panoramas.

Squishing yourself into a cameraphone frame with your bestie is so early 2014. Why rely on your outstretched arm when you can include a sweeping vista and aerial approach to your selfie?

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Stunning Drone Footage of a Humpback Whale Mother and Calf Surfacing

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Capture yourself in action, with all the freedom of spontaneity and zero pre-planning, even when there’s no one around to helm the sticks for you. Just select “Follow” in DroidPlanner, strap on your Android phone or throw your tablet in your backpack, and your drone will follow wherever you go

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The latest from Dronie (@dronie). Your official source for a unique view of #CannesLions via Twitter. Follow us to see #dronie clips; follow @TwitterAds for festival highlights!. Cannes, France

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Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture

At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week, Twitter showed off a company-sponsored account, Dronie, which let people at the festival take free drone selfie videos.

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The TravelByDrone website works with a map of the world and pinpoints, each icon is a video of that certain place. On the left you can see the latest uploaded videos. The videos differ in quality though, because everybody can upload them from youtube. via Next Nature

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HEXO+: Your Autonomous Aerial Camera raises over $1M in Kickstarter

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Drone's-eye view of fireworks goes bonkers viral, spawns internet freakout

This video of July 4 fireworks shot by a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter outfitted with a GoPro Hero 3 silver went bonkers viral over the Independence Day weekend. More than 6 million views in the first couple of days after Jos Stiglingh posted it to YouTube.

"The quad was not damaged," he explains.

The fireworks display was at West Palm Beach, Florida.

Gorgeous though it may be, there is some controversy over the legality and safety of what Stiglingh did.

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As the potential drone applications grow, so does the build-your-own drone movement

Two trends have driven this expansion: open source technology and the “makers” or DIY movement.

The technology has gotten better and more readily available. Drones and the sensors used to optimize them have gotten smaller. The push to open source technology and coding has made software to program drones readily available. “Because the software is open source, people can download it and use it as is,” says Vo, who develops and optimizes algorithms for use in drones as part of his research. “They don’t have to tweak it at all if they don’t want to.” If people tweak their code for niche drone applications, they can publish it online for another coder to use.

Full Story: The Smithsonian

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Proto X, A Tiny Remote Control Quadcopter That Can Sit in the Palm of Your Hand

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Consumer drone lets anyone take the ultimate sports selfies

The GoPro has created a generation of action videographers, and new accessories designed around consumer-level action footage are also growing because of it. In the past we’ve seen SOLOSHOTprovide automatic camera panning through a robotic tripod. Breaking free of the camera stand for some true action shots, HEXO+ is a small drone that autonomously follows and records the athlete at preset distances. READ MORE…

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For their new single Love Songs, LA dance outfit DJ Dodger Stadium filmed a dreamy, beautifully shot music video from the eye of a single drone. As the camera languidly floats above the Westlake section of Los Angeles, the beat plays along with the chant of "Lately I've been singing love songs by myself." You'll have trouble not singing this to yourself for the rest of the day.

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(via AirDog, A Personal Quadcopter That Automatically Follows and Films Users With a GoPro Camera)

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Drone video: Aftermath footage of landslide in Brazil World Cup host city (by RT)

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Drone.VC Is A VC Fund For Flying, Swooping, And Zooming Robots | TechCrunch

While there are a few hardware-only funds and many funds will invest in drones if backed into a corner, Drone.VC looks to be the first fund that caters..

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Bros Are Using Drones to Film Their Frat Parties Now