Everyone has wanted to fly at some point in their life. Unfortunately for most of us, watching this unbelievable trailer about Discovery’s Winged Planet is the closest we’ll ever come to actually flying. That’s okay thought because the footage is unbelievable—cameras were mounted onto birds to see life from their point of view. More »
The conspiracy of GoPro and its under-the-table payment of seagulls to create awesome viral video continues. Yes, this is a “thing”. Maybe. Probably not. Anyway, check out this video of how a GoPro, which was taking a sunset of San Francisco, was ruthlessly stolen by a seagull who went on a quick flying tour of the Bay Area (complete with Golden Gate Bridge). More »
Birds are awesome. From a distance. Up close they are terrifying, startling creatures that will crap on you and swoop unexpectedly into your face, making you scramble to hit the deck. Now an avian slumlord has created a bird tenement capable of containing 76 birds—and one weirdo human—at a time. More »
Helmet cams are amazing at getting a first person perspective on any situation, you’re literally able to see what they see. So how about attaching a little helmet camera to a falcon? Yep, you get to see what it’s like to fly (surprisingly not shaky!) and see what it’s like to hunt and kill (unsurprisingly messy). More »
Sprint’s LTE network has been slow to roll out with only 15 cities up and running so far. On the company’s conference call this morning, it divulged an unusual culprit: Birds! It seems that birds are living all up in Sprint’s LTE towers and hampering your 4G coverage. We’re so glad human incompetence and technical problems have nothing to do with it. Curse you birds! [Sprint Conference Call via Engadget] More »
Sprint mentioned that one of the holdups to get its LTE network rolled out is waiting for fiber-optic backhaul to be connected to its network sites. Of course, the company also mentioned a very different reason: birds. It turns out that some of the towers have become home to some avian families determined to hamper the uptake of high speed internet, which won’t be activated until they migrate. We wouldn’t advise you go with a stick trying to poke the nests from the sites — we suspect the Humane Association is on the lookout for angry nerds.
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What’s causing a delay in Sprint’s LTE rollout? Birds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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