Drone Toys

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Siobhan Gorman, Drones Get Ready to Fly, Unseen, Into Everyday Life . Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703631704575551954273159086.html

Note:
(a) Parrot AR Drone.
http://ardrone.parrot.com

(i) You may go straight to "TECHNOLOGIES" button in the upper right corner of the top horizontal bar--and watch video clips there.
(ii) AR stands for Augmented Reality. Click middle button "AR Games."
(iii) World Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux.
(iv) World headquarters at Paris, with North America office at Southfield (northern suburb of Detroit), MI and distributors in Taipei, Hong Kong as well as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.

(b) paparazzo is the singular form of paparazzi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paparazzi
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) flyway (n): "an established air route of migratory birds"
(d) Professor Rinaldo's Paparazzi Drone is still in the drawing board--so there is no protype yet.
(e) The term "hover parent" means parent hovering around his or her children, nagging and minding.
(f) May (Missy) Cummings, associate professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT.
http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1224

Her drone shown in the report is experimental, not ready for sale.


--------------------Separately
Howard Schneider, In Albany, a boom based on microchips. Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110205134.html

My comment:
(a) The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, SUNY.
http://cnse.albany.edu/
(b) Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) is part of Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), which is located at Durham, NC (North Carolina).
http://www.src.org

Click "About" in the top horizontal bar, for
(i) Organizational Charts
http://www.src.org/about/management-team/charts/
(NRI)
(ii) Membership List
(iii) Membership FAQ ("SRC was established in 1982 by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) as a research consortium")
(c) Saratoga County, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_County,_New_York
(immediately north of Albany County, whose seat is City of Albany)

(d) I was confused by the statement in the report: "At the site, hundreds of construction workers are pushing toward a planned 2012 opening."

I thought the "site" referred to the College. A brief research indicates the site means the GlobalFoundries fab, as teh College was established in 2001 and
"December 2004: CNSE awards the world's first Ph.D. degrees in nanoscience"  CNSE Quick Facts (in the pull menu of "About CNSE" button of the top horizontal bar).
http://cnse.albany.edu/about_cnse/quick_facts.html



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