If you’ve ever wanted a whirring quadcopter to fly dangerously close to your head and then suddenly flip over completely, righting itself before your eyes, you may want to put $300 down for the AR Drone 2, Parrot’s latest version of their amazing device.
The Drone, controlled via your iPhone, iPad, or Android device, has a number of improved features including the aforementioned “flip” feature that cause it to spin in midair. The new device has a 720p video camera built-in. The device will ship on April 9, allowing for plenty of spring time fun – scaring children, flipping off bonnets, and spying on the neighbors.
You can see our interview with the Parrot CEO at CES where he allowed us to sit, unscathed, under the Drone’s whirring blades of death.
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One of the biggest problems with discussing climate change is that a substantial fraction of the US public can’t agree on basic facts. All indications are that the planet has warmed over the last century, yet polls have shown that anywhere from a fifth to a third of US citizens will disagree with the statement that “there is solid evidence that average temperatures on earth have been getting warmer over the past four decades.” Now, a new poll gets at why people believe what they do, and finds that warm weather, and not scientific understanding, are driving acceptance.
Two schools, the University of Michigan and the Muhlenberg College, have been running a National Survey of American Public Opinion on Climate Change once or twice annually since 2008. During that time, the evidence has remained consistent: our planet is warmer than it was several decades ago. Yet public acceptance of that took a plunge from 72 percent down to 52 percent in the spring of 2010. It’s now rebounded back to 62 percent. The number of people who actively disagreed with that fact was essentially a mirror image, peaking at 36 percent before dropping back down to 26 percent. These patterns have been seen in a variety of other recent polls from Pew and Gallup.
As usual, there was a large partisan divide, with Republicans roughly evenly split between accepting and rejecting the data. In contrast, only 15 percent of Democrats rejected it.
If there was anything distinctive about the poll, it was the inclusion of questions about why people believe what they do. Although this didn’t contain an option for politicians, the poll did indicate that most people aren’t paying attention to either the media or scientists, both of which hovered around 10 percent. In fact, among those who claim that the Earth hasn’t gotten warmer, 80 percent claimed that “scientists are overstating evidence about global warming for their own interest.” Even a quarter of those who accepted the evidence felt the same way. No questions were asked to identify exactly what the scientists’ interest was.
So, what is driving opinions? Personal experience. Fully half of those who responded claimed to have personally experienced weather changes or temperature trends that have helped them formulate their beliefs. This includes people on both sides of the facts—follow up questions found people willing to say either that it seems just as cold as in the past, or that the past was much colder. In fact, the pollsters found that the number of people who accepted that the planet is warming was lower in the spring, after the experience of winter, than it was when the survey was conducted in the autumn.
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Apple has as a little event on the books next Wednesday. Maybe you heard about it. The iPad 3, with its high-res screen, is said to launch on that day. But there could be more surprises. Several “one more things,” if you will. Get out your salt shakers.
Digitimes is stating this morning through two separate reports that Apple plans on announcing an 8GB iPad 2 along with the iPad 3. Citing unnamed upstream supply chain source, one report states the 8GB model would allow the iPad to hit different segments “and to defend against Windows 8-based tablet PCs” — something Apple shouldn’t have to worry about until the fall.
But this move, if it’s true, is classic Apple. It makes perfect sense and is a move that runs parallel with a popular theory at TC HQ in which Apple is not replacing the iPad 2 next Wednesday, but rather adding a high-res model to the still-successful iPad 2 product line.
You see, Apple likes to make money and the iPad 2 is still selling like gangbusters even though it’s almost a year old. Plus, if rumors are to be believed, the iPad 3 will look a lot like the iPad 2 — well, externally at least. The iPad 3, if that’s its name, is more like a supercharged iPad 2; it’s an iPhone 4S.
Even though the two models will likely use different internal components, the similar physical design should allow for a similar manufacturing process. This is the expensive part of making a gadget. Apple’s manufacturing partners might be able to produce both tablets without a major retooling allowing Apple to pad its manufacturing revenue margins even more. It’s then up to Apple’s star marketing team to sell the public on two, seemingly competing iPad models.
Another plausible theory involves the education market. By reducing the size of the flash memory, in theory, the overall cost of the iPad should drop, allowing Apple to sell it at a lower price. Digitimes says $300-$350. But in 2012 flash memory isn’t a major cost. And, given the interactive iBooks physical size, an 8GB iPad would only hold one or two digital textbooks.
Digitimes is also reporting that Apple is set to begin production on a 7.85-inch iPad around the third quarter. This model is reportedly to be sold for $200-$250.
As with most early Apple reports, these claims are simply unverified rumors. Digitimes has the tendency of publishing a wide number of reports on Apple, seemingly hoping a few will come true. But these two seem likely. Apple will not kill a product that is still making money and it’s only time until Apple caves to popular demand and releases a smaller iPad. But, you know, take these with a pinch of salt — and then throw that salt over your shoulder and hope they come true.
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Shared House price rise ‘is temporary’.
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