Imagine you’re walking around, enjoying the early spring sunshine, and looking for a Wi-Fi network. You hear a whirring sound above you, look up, and there’s a drone, just chilling. Did that drone just take your picture? Nah. It just stole all the precious passwords from your smartphone.
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Drones can be used for a variety of things. They can be used in warfare, and they can be used in everyday life such as delivering beer to delivering parcels bought on Amazon. Then it also seems that it can be used to help document events in life which might not necessarily be as readily accessible by a human being, like filming footage of an active volcano in action.
In the video above, Shaun O’Callaghan, the drone’s operator, flies a drone into the middle of an active volcano in the country of Vanuatu, which is about a two-hour flight from Australia. The drone that was used is a DJI Phantom 2 RTF quadcopter which was attached with a GoPro camera. (more…)
Drone Flies Into An Active Volcano, Lives To Tell The Tale original content from Ubergizmo. 
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What the first thing you think of when you hear the word "drone?" It might be killing machines
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Last month, the Nationals were seen using a four-rotor drone to take publicity photos. The FAA took issue. "No, we didn’t get it cleared, but we don’t get our pop flies cleared either and those go higher than this thing did," a team official told the AP afterward. Which pretty neatly sums up the FAA’s conundrum with regulating drones in the wild.
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On Wednesday, a sudden gas explosion leveled two buildings in Harlem, killing at least seven people. Hordes of reporters arrived within minutes to cover the story, as did a random guy with a quadcopter. And, with apologies for the autoplay, this is the footage he captured in the immediate aftermath of the collapse:
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It’s rare to see architects working on security and human rights issues—but that’s exactly what’s happening right now, as a group of designers collaborate with the UN to document drone strikes in the Middle East.
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New Yorkers were shocked on Wednesday morning
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Put your face close to your screen and hit play. This short video, uploaded by YouTuber Shaun O’Callaghan, was shot from a DJI Phantom quad-copter as Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu erupted.
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Its safe to say that drones are here to stay, already extensively being used by the military, it is expected that commercial drones will play a major role in the not so distant future. The Federal Aviation Administration is to chart out formal rules for the use of commercial drones by the end of 2015, so all legal questions surrounding the use are a bit murky at this stage. However in a recent ruling a NTSB Administrative Law judge held that since there are no binding rules against the use of commercial drones, the FAA can’t fine anybody. FAA has quickly, and unsurprisingly, appealed the ruling.
FAA Appeals NTSB’s Ruling On Commercial Drone Use original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Are drones not scary enough for you yet? How about this? A drone helicopter that spots you and identifies you as an intruder. It tells you to stop and put your hands behind your head. Instead, you keep coming. The drone then shoots you with barbed Taser darts that pump 80,000 volts into you. If you try to get up, it will continue pumping voltage into you until you submit and the authorities arrive.
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