Electronic-Geek.com » Flying http://electronic-geek.com Your Electronic Source Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Malaysia Airlines now offers iPad check-in (video) http://electronic-geek.com/malaysia-airlines-now-offers-ipad-check-in-video/ http://electronic-geek.com/malaysia-airlines-now-offers-ipad-check-in-video/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:01:00 +0000 Sean Hollister http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/malaysia-airlines-now-offers-ipad-check-in-video/ It's getting easier and easier to enjoy in-flight entertainment on Apple's briskly moving tablet, but why wait till you get to the gate to dive in? If you're flying out of Kuala Lumpur, you can play with that 9.7-inch IPS touchscreen while you daydream of that time that watched Entrapment with your soulmate, book your flight, find departure times and even check in at dedicated kiosks. Adapting its iPhone application MHMobile for iPad use, Malaysia Airlines has installed five terminals at Kuala Lumpur Sentral so far -- where the company presently serves just 900 customers a day. See the interface in action after the break, or just download the existing app at our more coverage link if you're in search of that elusive globetrotter feeling.

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Tom's Guide has a detailed project article for this amazing camera-equipped tri-copter R/C flier. The piece takes you through the design and build process, from inception of the idea, through building and troubleshooting, to the finished flier. Very cool.

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Found on DIY Drones, this excellent video shows the dangers of sending your drone into a bird's turf!

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This simulator hoists a person up via a hang glider harness with a fan blowing in his face and some VR goggles on his head. The project website is disappointingly light on detail, but it looks like it might be fun to try. What would really be killer, and I don't get the sense that the project works this way, would be for the crane to alter the person's pitch and yaw while simultaneously adjusting the Google Earth Flight Simulator feed. It looks like the crane is operated manually and the person shifts his weight to tilt the wings and thereby control the Wiimote.

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This simulator hoists a person up via a hang glider harness with a fan blowing in his face and some VR goggles on his head. The project website is disappointingly light on detail, but it looks like it might be fun to try. What would really be killer, and I don't get the sense that the project works this way, would be for the crane to alter the person's pitch and yaw while simultaneously adjusting the Google Earth Flight Simulator feed. It looks like the crane is operated manually and the person shifts his weight to tilt the wings and thereby control the Wiimote.

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