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A Weekend Skiing in Les Arcs

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We had some good sun on the first day in the afternoon, but didn’t take the drone that day as the weather looked better the following day.

Garmin Venu GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review

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The middle chunk is throw-away, I was filming some drone stuff (and doing lots with my hands).

Week in Review – Oct 27th, 2024

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5) The US customs battle with DJI over drone imports: While this has been mostly resolved in the last few days, I’d fully expect this sort of thing will continue to escalate (beyond the existing escalations).

Friday Sports Tech Livestream Q&A Recorded Session Available!

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From aero sensors to power meters, watches to bike computers, action cameras to drones, and pretty much everything else in between.

Week in Review–February 20th, 2016

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In this I go start to finish on unpacking the follow-me action drone, and then a few tiny snippets of video footage from my actual ride.

GoPro Fusion 360° Action Camera In-Depth Review

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Things like its ability to make the pole holding the camera disappear through optics tricks are astounding – effectively having the camera float in front of you like a small personal drone.

Strava Adds 3D Terrain Heatmaps To Site: Quick Overview

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Along with GoPro and drone reviews, and honestly countless other products over the last near-decade.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend in Mallorca

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So stuff like my DSLR camera, drones, etc… But eventually you have to draw the line on what to take onboard.

Week in Review–February 18th, 2018

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1) The most impressive sports drone I’ve seen to date: There’s so many videos to watch on their YouTube channel that are worthy of consideration.

Week in Review–February 14th, 2016

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6) Hire a drone pilot to film your next sporting adventure: Pretty interesting concept, and quite logical.

Week in Review–Jan 27th, 2018

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5) Drone rescues swimmer in Australia: I remember linking to this program when it first started, really cool to see it come to fruition in saving someone’s life.

Week in Review–April 7th, 2019

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7) Content aware for Adobe After Effects will be super cool for sports: This item is showing my geeky side, but I’m super excited to get a spare few hours to start playing with this on some of my older footage – especially drone footage.

Headed to ISPO this weekend, got tech companies to see?

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I have a handful of meetings and demo’s scheduled – including one with a new sports action drone entrant (Staaker), but I’m certainly looking to hear of any companies you want me to check in on that are attending the show.

FIT File: Techtember Roundup! Apple Watch, Pixel Watch, GoPro, DJI, and More!

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In this episode, we chat about all the new Techtember goodies including Apple Watches, Pixel watches, GoPros, new drones, and more!.

Week in Review– March 7th, 2021

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1) FPV Drones Following a Golf Ball – Behind the Scenes: Even if you don’t partake in golf, nor flying drones – I think you’ll find this pretty incredible.

Week in Review – December 4th, 2017

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Zwift update: You can now control the camera with far more granularity, allowing you to rotate it around you like drone shots.

Week in Review–January 31st, 2016

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On Thursday I headed out into the countryside to try out the new follow-me action cam drone, Airdog.

Four Days of Swim/Bike/Run Amazingness in Mallorca

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For example, this video below I shot back in 2016 using a sport follow me drone Airdog (RIP?)– there was nobody out there that morning.

Week in Review–Oct 14th, 2019

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- Skydio 2 drone announced: Yet more financial distress for Shane?…

Week in Review–June 10th, 2012

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8) Parrot AR drone (RC helicopter of sorts) tricked out to follow you jogging: I think that the general technology in this segment is about 8-12 months away from us seeing a GoPro like explosion of aerial videos following ourselves doing sports activities (today, there are still videos of people doing sports stuff, but it’s all largely staged in a single location).

Week in Review–Nov 26th, 2017

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7) Umm, not #2? One of the random footnotes that came out of the GoPro earnings call this past August was that GoPro claimed they were the #2 drone manufacturer behind DJI.