Drone delivery in 2015
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that GoPro is going to start making its own consumer drones. Adrenaline junkies are already strapping action cameras to drones in order to capture even better footage of their extreme exploits and so it makes perfect sense that GoPro would want to cut out the middleman and offer a drone of its own, with its own camera technology built in. The WSJ’s sources claim that the drones will be multi-colored and are expected to touch down in time for the 2015 holiday season. Unlike the commercial drones that Amazon and Google are toying with, the same restrictive laws do not regulate consumer models. This […]
23,000 EUR to ride the ‘new’ Orient Express
Railway enthusiasts with a taste for nostalgia will soon be able to indulge their Orient Express fantasies after Hungarian Railways said it was launching a luxury Budapest-Tehran train service. With ticket prices of between 10,000 and 23,000 euros, guests will receive “five-star” treatment including complimentary alcohol right up to the Iranian frontier, after which only “soft drinks and non-alcoholic beer” will be served. “Iran has been opening up towards the west recently, so we thought the time was right to set this up,” Marcella Beke, sales director of the “Nostalgia” branch of the Hungarian state-owned rail operator told AFP Monday. The first “Golden Eagle-Danube Express” train, which comprises 13 lavishly-decorated […]