I so want one of these sweet Draganflyer X6 helicopters. The two pound powerhouse can carry up to one pound of camera equipment, carrying it smooth enough to get decent video and stills.

More videos are at the Dragonfly website, including one which supposedly demonstrates that it’s quiet enough for wildlife photo work (scroll down and [...]

Posted September 4, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: aerial surveillance, helicopter, photography, RC, remote control, remote control helicopter, UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle. 3 Comments.

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Games
Tilt, described in programmer Joe Hewitt’s blog:
…Christopher introduced me to a very talented video game designer, Nicole Lazzaro, who had an endless stream of ideas for games that would use the iPhone’s accelerometer. Nicole’s ideas quickly ran into the limitations of the phone, as we discovered that the browser doesn’t rotate when you hold it [...]

Posted July 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aim, applications, chat, games, im, iphone, IRC, remote control. 2 Comments.

Sure it’s old news, but I am pretty happy that Mac OS X 10.4 has a built-in VNC server.
You’ll still need a client, like Chicken of the VNC, but it couldn’t be much simpler to make work. Though, you could run a separate server app (even several instances of it) and work up [...]

Posted September 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: built-in, mac, mac os X, Mac OS X 10.4, remote control, screen sharing, virtual network network computer, VNC. Be the first one.

I live quite a distance from any Apple Stores, so it’s only now that I’ve been able to see the new stuff. The Photo Booth application bundled with the new iMacs is actually more fun than I expected. That’s me above with the “comic book” effect applied.
But Front Row is every bit as sweet as [...]

Posted November 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apple, apple media center, apple stores, front row, imac, isight, mac media center, photo booth, remote control. 2 Comments.

I have a sort of guilt complex about looking at home theater issues. Nonetheless, I’ve been building one piecemeal ever since I found an incredible deal on a video projector. Now I’m working on assembling a video jukebox of sorts and I need to face the remote control stumbling block.
That’s why I like the Logitech [...]

Posted September 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: control, harmony 520, home theater control, home theater remote, home theater remote control, logitech, logitech harmony, logitech harmony 520, logitech harmony remote, logitech harmony remote control, remote, remote control. 2 Comments.