Introducing DroneShield: Drone Detection Just Got Personal
Worried about drones flying over your property or an unmanned bot looking in your window? Check out this simple, inexpensive device that alerts you via text and email to the presence of any nearby drones. The video was made for an Indiegogo Crowd Source Project and was an immediate hit. The funding goal has been surpassed and the product should be available later this year.
Tiny Affordable Device Detects Nearby Drones
The device will cost $69 and will be the size of a USB thumb drive. It will use Raspberry Pi, a tiny $25 computer. The engineer behind the project says he imagines customers will attach the Drone Shield to their fences or roofs to protect their home from surveillance.
Order one here - http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/droneshield
How It Works
Engineer and company's founder, John Franklin, who has been working in aerospace engineering for seven years, says the DroneShield detects the presence of drones with a commercially available microphone and specialized software. Each DroneShield contains a database of common drone acoustic signatures so false alarms are reduced (lawn mowers, leaf blowers etc.) and in most cases the type of drone is included in the alert.
Read more here - http://droneshield.org/
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Report From CBS New York
Drones Are Already Spying Here At Home
Good clip on growing use of domestic drones.
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NEW STORY
Obama Is Killing With Drones Instead Of Using Guantanamo
A former adviser to President George W. Bush suggested Wednesday that instead of locking up suspected terrorists, Obama has just been killing them with drones.
"This administration has decided they don't want to do detention, because the Bush administration got into trouble with detention, so now they're just killing people."
John Bellinger was legal adviser to the State Department State from 2005-09 and legal adviser to the White House's National Security Counsel from 2001 to 2005. Over the past decade, the United States has engaged in at least 300 drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq and Mali, taking out several high level al-Qaida operatives, but also killing approximately 2,000 civilians, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
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Bonus Clip
Drone used in San Francisco wedding proposal
Is this how divorce papers will be delivered? Sorry, couldn't help it.
New Links
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Good Photo Essay - The Expansion of the Drone
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