Recent content by hiroto

It just occurred to me so I took a look at Sunday River App. Scroll down to the bottom and there is this prominent "Emergency" button. It seems to lookup your location with GPS, and send the information to the emergency service and make a call. Very nice. Do all mountain apps have...

Very good point. A few years ago, I was at Mont Blanc, Quebec. Skiing with my daughter and son, first thing in the morning on a very very cold day. It was beautiful but the mountain was empty. In the middle of the mountain, my daughter crashed and had a bad tumble at fairly high speed...

My battery dies on me when we went up to Quebec for skiing vacation and got really cold. AAA membership works with CAA, and you can even call the same 1-800 in Canada and it connects to CAA (although AAA smartphone App does not work in Canada). We got jumped and drove to Canadian Tire for a...

Skiers injured by flying rocks on Japanese volcano (abc NEWS) This happened at Kusatsu Kokusai Ski Resort in Gunma prefecture. It is not a major ski resorts like some in Nagano, but it is very special resort to be in Kusatsu, one of the best known hot spring resort in Japan. Also the ski...

Wow, pretty impressive. It is interesting that in addition to "Follow" mode, it has "Lead" mode to fly ahead of the subject and shoots back. The video shows short example of that for kayaking - I wonder how well does that work for skiing/boarding.

I switched from AT&T last year and it is working out ok for me. For my daily life, it is better coverage at home and ok at work. I'm looking forward for iOS 8's wifi calling. Price is great that after $80 a month for me and my wife's iPhone, adding my son's iPhone (my old unlocked at&t...

To be more precise, most wingsuit guys are benign. They just exit a plane at 12-14,000 feet like normal skydivers, fly around in wide open sky with a few friends (or more) and deploy parachute at safe altitude of 3000 ft. For most average skydivers, it can be done safely with a little...

Came across this on "Drone ... " thread.

My guess is that condo association will ban the usage of fireplace by the guest pretty soon.

Mountain smelled with nasty smoke for the whole day (they canceled some kids program for that) Although fire started 1AM, lots of smoke were still coming out in the morning, and it seemed to have put out through the day, but then by the time we were leaving at the end of the day, not so thin...

Can't stop watching those amazing videos. Rock climbing is a popular subject too.

Ok, it has happened: Groom hit in face by quadcopter-mounted camera in painful wedding experience | Metro News

This is pretty bad. It is matter of time that drone will cause serious injury, accident or even fatality. Small Drone Crashes Into New York City Sidewalk - YouTube Also, why those new copters are flying with open blades? There are copters with safety guards, like: Xtreme 2.0 Gen II...

You may also need to invest into stabilizer mount, which is optional: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/974188-REG/dji_zegoprogmbl_zenmuse_gopro_gimbal.html Saw many reviews that without this, video will be way too shaky to be usable. ▶ DJI Zenmuse H3-2D Comparison - CarbonCore...

I guess it is happening all over the places. Here are some finds with "ski drone" keywords. A guy flying a drone in a French ski resort. Skiing while flying a drone - Tignes Val Claret, France - YouTube Interesting. Racing training video with drone. Amazing footages. Drone helicopter...