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• 1. Z  |  April 17th, 2008 at 4:52 am

  So THAT’S where Billy Idol’s been all these years…learning to ride a Segway.

  Bob Dotson’s a class act, too.

• 2. tdc  |  April 17th, 2008 at 7:31 am

  i recently witnessed a guy who mounted a camera to a remote control miniture plane or helicopter. he sent it up and got amazingly good footage of his lakeside home and property.

  made me wonder how long expensive “chopper(insertdialpositionhere)” has before being cut out of the budget.

• 3. JBa  |  April 17th, 2008 at 8:13 am

  Buy a surplus Air Force Predator drone off e-Bay and hire an ex-USAF tech sgt to run the thing for you. And if it’s armed with Hellfires, you can truly blow away the competition.

• 4. James  |  April 17th, 2008 at 9:08 am

  Saw a guy do that with an RC chopper about five years ago. I asked a police chief about it, and he said “If it’s low enough over an active scene, I’d have it shot out of the air with a beanbag round.”

  I think I’ll stick to JetRangers, thanks. But a Predator would be nice. No pilot to pay or wake up at 3 a.m.

• 5. tdc  |  April 17th, 2008 at 9:18 am

  better have it drop a dozen donuts just to be safe.

• 6. Amanda E.  |  April 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am

  The b-roll.net crowd has their own NAB08 flickr pool with more pictures of shiny toys. Click my name for a link.

• 7. Amanda E.  |  April 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am

  @tdc

  A cop told me that they are called pastries now so they can have more than just stale donuts. So make that a drop of assorted fresh pastries from the nearest bakery.

• 8. tdc  |  April 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am

  doughly noted.

• 9. Z  |  April 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am

  THAT was awful, TDC.

• 10. Gyro  |  May 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 am

  The Steadicam-Segway rig (Handsfree-Transporter) looks like something out of a science fiction movie.

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