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  • Hijinks Reviews: Parrot AR Drone

    Yes, the Parrot AR Drone is finally shipping! And we of course couldn’t pass up using Hijinks Inc. as an excuse to test out the AR Drone ourselves (since we’re not cool enough to go to CES). Our ceremonial unboxing pictures can be found here.

    In case you’re unfamiliar with how the AR Drone works, it broadcasts a wireless signal (802.11 b/g) and you connect your iDevice to it via WiFi. Basically just an ad-hoc wireless network. In our tests we had problems switching between multiple devices, our iPhone connected/disconnected fine, but when we went to try it out with an iPad we couldn’t lease an IP. Un-pairing the drone didn’t help, nor did restarting it entirely. Hard coding an IP address on the iPad also yielding no results.
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  • Parrot AR Drone Unboxing

    Look what the UPS man just dropped off…





  • Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    Parrot AR Drone Available for Pre-Order

    After years of wondering if it would ever reach production, let alone be affordable, the Parrot AR Drone is now up for pre-order on Brookstone’s website!

    This wonderfully awesome piece of iPhone controlled gadgetry will set you back a cool $299+ shipping (which was $10 on my order) and won’t arrive until sometime after September 3rd, but that seems pretty tangible after the long period of waiting since the Parrot was first demoed at CES. I just bought one, you should too.

    [ Pre-order at Brookestone ]

    For more information on this bundle of quadricopter goodness, check out http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/