Fox Invades Comic-Con With Drones

Comic-Con, the 2014 iteration of which kicks off Thursday in San Diego, has seen an increasing amount of outlandish stunts over the years — stadiums full of zombies, entire pop-up houses devoted to movies.

But Fox is set to kick it up a notch this year by bringing along a bunch of drones to promote the show 24 — and giving attendees instructions on how to pilot them. (What could possibly go wrong?)

We're told that the drone promotion, revealed exclusively to Mashable, includes lessons from a FAA-licensed drone pilot. Each DJI Phantom Vision 2+ quadrocopter comes equipped with a camera that will record the flight. Participating pilots will be encouraged to share the resulting video on social media.

"Should any drones go missing, we have received reports that Jack Bauer will be in the area to recover them," a Fox rep told us.

The drone flight lessons will be available at Petco Park in downtown San Diego Thursday through Saturday. The whole promotion ties in to the upcoming release of 24: Live Another Day on DVD and Blu-Ray.

The show featured hackers who hijack combat drones — somewhat larger than these quadrocopters — and turn them into terrorist threats. We're hoping attendees won't take matters that far.

Inspire series of DJI unmanned aerial vehicles of the second generation - Inspire 2（Ⅱ）

In order to take into account the transport of portable and 360-degree PTZ barrier-free vision, Inspire 2 a total of three forms - mode of transport, landing mode and flight mode. Only in the transport mode, we can put it in the box, and installed in the camera module, you need to first press the 5 power button to change to the landing mode.

Inspire2 biggest change is the matte gray aluminum casing, front binocular camera and FPV camera module, stout motor, more robust paddle lock mechanism and a new design of the battery installation. In addition, Inspire2 tripod becomes more slim and concise, strength seems to have improved.

Carefully observe the top of the fuselage, we can find another bright spot. As the Inspire2 switch to an aluminum alloy shell, in order to prevent obstacles GPS positioning signal, the top of the GPS part of the open a circular hole, and aluminum alloy cover the same color plastic cover GPS antenna instead, so Inspire2 positioning accuracy should not be shell Material changes are affected in any way.

Because the battery has been inserted from the vertical into the tail, so Inspire1 top of the original battery opening was "eliminated", but the four Y-shaped power indicator and power button has been retained. Behind the battery indicator is a battery lock and two infrared perception system, the perception system can ensure that the UAV in the process of rising will not encounter obstacles to facilitate flying in the indoor flight.

In order to ensure the quality of video shooting down DJI Inspire 2 UAV fastest speed

The Inspire 2 is now flying at 58 mph (93 km / h), compared to 67 mph (108 km / h) at the time of its initial release. At the same time, Inspire 2 0-50mph (about 80 km / h) acceleration time will be extended to 5 seconds, slightly slower than the previously announced 4 seconds.

In order to ensure that the speed will not affect the quality and stability of the video, it is necessary to make this adjustment. Inspire 2 is aimed at filmmakers, with barrier avoidance features, with two cameras, equipped with a new image processing system using an on-board solid-state hard drive. Therefore, Inspire 2 first thing to consider is the quality of the video it shoot, not the absolute flight speed.

And opponents of UAVs compared to some problems, the DJI Inspire 2 the fastest flying speed of the small reduction is not a big problem. However, if you happen to be the Inspire 2's fastest flight speed can exceed 60mph (about 96 km / h) and booking this unmanned aerial vehicle, then DJI will provide a full refund.

the UAV can easily be used by the vast majority of enterprises

DJI has introduced technological innovations into the popular Phantom series of existing UAVs and has become the mainstream. Today, the latest UAV model not only improves the stability of the gyroscope, the flight time is three times before, but the cost is only 1,000 US dollars.

In short, regardless of its cost or hardware, make the UAV can easily be used by the vast majority of enterprises. The turning point, however, is that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) passed the Part 107 Act in June this year, and now anyone with a web-based license can operate a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle, previously only available to a driver's license, And high, operation and laborious.

The current mainstream business applications for UAVs increasingly widespread, but the layman is difficult to touch the doorway. Intel has just released a design for industrial design of unmanned aerial vehicles, such as can be used for construction sites or field survey; oil and gas companies to ensure drilling safety and maintenance of unmanned aerial vehicles; and Amazon also tried to unmanned aerial vehicles Delivery business.

Companies that sell seed to the agricultural market provide the farmer with unmanned aerial vehicles free of charge and train them to take care of the crops with unmanned aircraft. UPS recently used unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver drugs to an island near Boston. I have recently talked to a company that has drawn maps of the freeways in Mexico and identified the roads that need to be patched. Previously, the satellite image pixel is not clear enough, while the car image rendering and takes a long time, but the UAV can be completed within a few days of this project.

UAVs can also be widely used in other areas, whether insurance companies assess the loss of crops due to hail, or the city used to detect heavy rainfall during the groundwater level.

The emerging DJI enterprise market creates an ecosystem to support its own development. UAVs have emerged as consultants for companies that require unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and can be seen as Uber in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For example, companies can contract with UAV operators to perform remote device tests without having to take the risk of overhauling or hiring full-time staff to do the job.

The real commercial value of the UAV (Ⅱ)

This model of employment of UAVs is critical to the growth of the enterprise UAV market. No one has ever counted the number of such services, but there is no doubt that there are already tens of thousands.

Earlier, such as DJI and other companies of the existing hardware solutions can not be used by enterprises. As a result, companies like Airware and Kespry, which built their own software ecosystem and built hardware, provided services to companies. Recently the situation has changed. UAV market changes are the fastest growing companies DroneDeploy, Skycatch and Propeller, but they only focus on software.

These companies only need to focus on software, software vendors and growing, so that these companies benefit. As the smart phone industry, the trend of commercialization of hardware gradually receded, only use their own UAV hardware is not worth promoting. The next generation of unmanned aerial vehicle software, the more promising several categories is the management of unmanned aircraft flight, the legitimacy of flight behavior and real-time data analysis and processing.

The media always like to tell some of the future story - UAV in the city shuttle, blotting out the sun. Although the scene is not impossible, but its real to achieve a certain distance. Millions of unmanned aerial vehicles have been put into use, they create value in the enterprise, as well as to create the results, the media is rarely reported. To know from the cost terms, before it is impossible to achieve.

UAVs have already had a real impact on many industries and have changed businesses in silence. Just as IP-based phones are hot all over the world overnight, unmanned aerial vehicles will also enter every aspect of our lives.