c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 1 Siobhan Gorman, Drones Get Ready to Fly, Unseen, Into Everyday Life . Wall
Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703631704575551954273159086.html
Note:
(a) Parrot AR Drone.
http://ardrone.parrot.com
(i) You may go straight to "TECHNOLOGIES" button in the upper right corner
of the top horizontal bar--and watch video clips there.
(ii) AR stands for Augmented Reality. Click middle button "AR Games."
(iii) World Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux.
(iv) World headquarters at Paris, with North America office at Southfield (
northern suburb of Detroit), MI and distributors in Taipei, Hong Kong as
well as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.
(b) paparazzo is the singular form of paparazzi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paparazzi
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) flyway (n): "an established air route of migratory birds"
(d) Professor Rinaldo's Paparazzi Drone is still in the drawing board--so
there is no protype yet.
(e) The term "hover parent" means parent hovering around his or her children
, nagging and minding.
(f) May (Missy) Cummings, associate professor, Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT.
http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1224
Her drone shown in the report is experimental, not ready for sale. |
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