{"id":17338,"date":"2011-11-08T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17338"},"modified":"2011-11-07T06:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:38:33","slug":"the-future-japanese-scientists-create-spherical-flying-hover-drone-26-years-after-real-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-future-japanese-scientists-create-spherical-flying-hover-drone-26-years-after-real-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future: Japanese Scientists Create Spherical Flying Hover Drone, 26 years After REAL GENIUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.go.jp\/e\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ministry of Defense<\/a> revealed a helicopter hover drone that can fly up to 40 MPH. It can also roll on the ground or up a wall under full control of the operator. This new thing has obvious uses in defense and security. Hell, pick any high technology dystopian future, evil genius base or shady multinational corporate entity in fiction and you&#8217;ll see a fleet of these suckers. <\/p>\n<p>But a Google+ user pointed out what should have been obvious from the get go. This hover drone could revolutionize certain aspects of filmmaking. We&#8217;re embarrassed the creative idea didn&#8217;t come to us before the hard practical uses.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pF0uLnMoQZA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Another thing that struck us about this machine is that the 1980s movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089886\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">REAL GENIUS<\/a> prophesied it about 26 years prior.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lqvzDHz5t14\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/japanhoverdrone.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"and the therm-optic camouflage goes here...\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/japanhoverdrone.png 600w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/japanhoverdrone-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/spherical-flying-drone-hovers-like-a-helicopter-flies-at-40-mph\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">laughing squid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diginfo.tv\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">DigiInfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ministry of Defense revealed a helicopter hover drone that can fly up to 40 MPH. It can also roll on the ground or up a wall under full control of the operator. This new thing has obvious uses in defense and security. Hell, pick any high technology dystopian future, evil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,15,8,77],"tags":[103,4653,2903,4647,900,4650,4649,4648,4651,4652,3629],"class_list":["post-17338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-robots","category-technology","category-the-future","tag-awesome","tag-defense","tag-filmmakers-paradise","tag-helicopter","tag-japan","tag-japans-ministry-of-defense","tag-rc","tag-remote-control","tag-remote-drones","tag-security","tag-the-future-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17343,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}