Watch this hilarious parody horror trailer about a self-aware killer drone
This may just be a parody trailer, but it's not going to be long before someone creates a horror film about a hobbyist's quadcopter becoming self-aware and murdering its human masters. Introducing The Drone.
The Round-up: Half-life 3, exploding iPhone 4 and condoms
So this week's been pretty mighty in terms of the sheer amount of news we've had to write about, so allow us to condense it all into a handy set of links which will help navigate around the week's digest. There was McGruff the Crime Dog, Carrier IQ (mobile phone tracking), a little printer, an iPhone 4 mysteriously blowing up, Facebook receiving all kinds of privacy-related hell, and a urinal gaming system...honestly. Let's begin.
Tower built by quadcopters
What happens when a roboticist and two architects team up? The Flighwt Assembled Architecture installation, where a fleet of quadcopters have built a 20 feet twisting tower out of 1500 foam bricks.