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Drones perform spectacularly as the proverbial eye in the sky, but the Alaska Board of Game doesn’t want drones giving hunters an unfair advantage over their UAV-less counterparts. At its recent meeting, the 7 member Alaska Board of Game unanimously voted in favor of a measure to stop hunters from spotting game through drones, or other similar gadgets. Alaska Wildlife Troopers believe that this practise isn’t widespread, but with drone technology becoming cheaper, its only a matter of time before hunters start investing in drones.

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Alaska To Make Drone Assisted Hunting Illegal original content from Ubergizmo.

4K is all the rage these days. The market waits for smartphones to offer 4K recording capability, its gobbling up the plethora of 4K TVs and displays that have recently been announced, and its also looking forward to affordable 4K video recording solutions. The need is gradually being met. Panasonic has a new 4K camera up its sleeve, through which it aims to get a piece of this pie. The Panasonic HX-A500 4K wearable camera is capable of recording 4K video at 25 frames per second.

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Panasonic HX-A500 4K Wearable Camera Coming This May original content from Ubergizmo.

E-cigarettes are controversial these days, following public vaping bans in the country’s three biggest cities. The issue? We don’t know yet if they’re bad for you or not. But one thing that’s definitely, indisputably bad for you: Drinking e-cigarette juice.

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It had been a while since I wore an Oculus Rift, and it was time to peek at the latest version of the hardware SDK, called Crystal Cove. I had missed out on the previous evolution, but it looks like this latest revision is much more interesting anyway. Oculus VR has worked hard to fix every pain points that it could, such as latency, response time and other critical aspects of its virtual reality (VR) headset. I’ve been following VR since it was using non-textured 3D graphics, so how far have we come? Read on. (more…)

Hands-On: Oculus Rift Review (Crystal Cove, DK2) original content from Ubergizmo.

Sony’s Australian site had just listed the launch of the Sony A3500 mirrorless camera, but it would be extremely prudent if one were to approach this particular bit of news with caution. On paper, the Sony A3500 mirrorless camera might seem to be a new addition to the digital camera family, but in reality, it seems to be a minor revamp of the Sony A3000 which was introduced to the masses a mere half a year back, sporting a similar body and specifications including a 20.1-megapixel Exmor APS sensor, Full HD video recording capability and a continuous shooting speed of 3.5fps.

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Sony A3500 Camera Launched original content from Ubergizmo.