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Parrot AR.Drone now available for pre-order at Brookstone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2010)

Good news, everyone! The long-awaited Parrot AR.Drone (as seen being crashed into one of Parrot's PR reps by yours truly) is finally available for pre-order over at Brookstone. And as promised back at E3, the iPhone-controlled quadricopter will be available for US $299. It's available in a ...

Found footage: Fly an RC plane? There's an iPhone app for that

by Mike Schramm (Jun 5th, 2010)

We're supposed to hear more about the AR.Drone at E3 in a few weeks, but you may not have to wait that long -- Flypad is an app coming soon to the App Store that purports to let you fly any RC-controlled plane with an iPhone, just by connecting the iPhone's audio out signal up to an adapter. The ...

GDC 2010: The Parrot AR.Drone's augmented reality

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

We actually got to play with the iPhone-controlled Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter back at Macworld a little while ago, but we didn't get a chance to see the "AR" part of it (augmented reality, of course) until GDC last week. Parrot pulled out the AR targets for us, and while the games they had ...