Find the Right Drone, for the Right Purpose

Buy your next drone for the right purpose. Skynex Global Drones‘ online store contains a section titled ‘Drones by Purpose‘ that allows you to find the right drone, for the right purpose. Whether you’re looking for a hobby drone, racing drone, acrobatic drone, aerial photography drone, etc., they’ve got them all. Their prices are up to 50% lower than what you would pay for the same drone in a bricks and mortar store. Visit the Skynex Global Drones store today, your new drone awaits!

5 Trending Necklace Styles

Our previous blog post offered our online audience of shoppers 5 of the top trending earring styles in our Earrings Capsule. This post presents the top 5 shopping items in our recently-updated Necklace & Choker Capsule, which gathers 30 trending necklace and choker styles for women. Our final selection of necklaces and chokers is based entirely on the preference expressed by our audience of online shoppers. As always, once we complete our selection of 30 items, we are always interested in knowing which of the 30 final items are in the top 5 best items. Here’s what our online audience of shoppers is telling us about 5 entirely different, trending styles of necklaces and chokers.

#1. Short Choker Necklace (Price: $24.99) – A first popular choice among our online audience was this short, highly fashionable, and elegant choker necklace for women, with delicate and intricate ethnic-like floral designs. This trending, short choker necklace comes in silver or gold. Its classic look makes it suitable for a wide variety of fashion styles, notably bohemian, artsy, and romantic fashion styles. This necklace is available for purchase for $24.99.

 #2. Long V-Style Bead Chain Necklace w/ Rhinestone Gem Pendant (Sale: $14.99; Reg. $24.95) – This elegantly long and sexy Bead chain necklace with choice of purple or turquoise rhinestone gem was another necklace style that was very popular among our audience of online shoppers. As with the short choker necklace, the classic design of this long necklace makes it suitable for almost any fashion style.

#3. Fishing Cat Wearing Silver Collar Pendant Necklace (Price: $25.99): Yet another popular, and entirely different, choice of necklace among our online audience of shoppers was this cute sterling silver necklace with a cat, also wearing a silver choker necklace, fishing on the necklace line. Unlike the other previous two necklace styles, this necklace is most suited for cat lovers, but also for the classic, romantic, traditional, girly types.

#4. Short Choker Hoop Layered with Geometric Pendant Necklace (Sale Price: $19.99; Reg. Price: $29.99) – Another favorite that was expressed by our online audience of fashionistas, shoppers, and deal seekers was the beautiful, fashionable, and elegant short choker hoop layered with a bead chain necklace with black geometric triangle pendant. This stylish, layered choker necklace is most suitable for elegant, sophisticated, and glamorous fashion styles.

 

#5. Gold Golden Gate Bridge Pendant Suspended on Chain Necklace (Reg. Price: $14.99) – As a last choice, we decided to display this fun Golden Gate Bridge pendant necklace. While this was not our audience’s 5th favorite choice, it did make our top 30 due to the positive response we received from our online shopping audience. It’s also one of our favorite fashion pendant necklaces. 

 

The above are but 5 of our online audience’s selection of favorite necklaces and chokers. Our full, updated selection of 30 trending essential necklaces is now on display in our Necklace & Pendant Capsule Shop. Happy SHOPologee!

5 Trending Creative, Original, and Fashionable Earring Styles

Capsule Shops

SHOPologee just recently finished updating its Earrings Capsule. For those who are wondering, SHOPologee coins the notion of a ‘Capsule Shop’ as one which curates 30 or fewer trending essential must-have affordable online shopping items within a particular category of consumer products. The concept of a ‘capsule’ was first appeared in relation to a Capsule Wardrobe and is part of the larger ‘minimalist‘ trend, a trend which Forbes.com recently described as an ever-growing trend aimed at ‘declutter’ one’s lifestyle. These concepts have been transposed and adapted by SHOPologee to the wonderful world of online shopping. So, if you’re online shopping for a drone, for instance, our Drone Capsule displays 30 (or fewer) of the latest trending affordable consumer drones available to online shoppers. The idea is to simplify, facilitate, declutter, and narrow down the selection of online shopping items to a few of the best, essential, latest trending items.

Our Earrings Capsule Shop: Finding the Top 30 Trending Essential Earring Designs

SHOPologee recently finished the long and arduous process of updating its Earrings Capsule. We say long and arduous, only because building our Capsule Shop requires taking into account the views, preferences, and opinions of our online audience and shoppers, rather than building a collection of earrings that focuses solely on our own preferences. In selecting which pair of earrings to include in our 30 trending essential earrings, we first conducted some preliminary market research into trending fashion style for earrings. Google Trends, for instance, indicated that double-sided stud earrings, constellation earrings, as well as ethnic tribal earrings were trending in the earrings department. Based on our preliminary research of trending earring styles, we then selected hundreds of different styles, colors, types, and designs of earrings, which we then put to our online audience to determine which ones to include in our selection. For every 1 pair of earrings selected, at least 5 to 10 others were displayed. The final top 30 trending essential earrings are now available in our Earrings Capsule Shop.

Sharing Our Findings: the Top 5 Trending Earring Styles

After we finished updating our Earrings Capsule with 30 of the latest trending earrings styles and designs, we, of course, wanted to go further.  We wanted to determine which of the top 30 trending earrings were gathered were in the top 5 most trending essential earrings designs. Immediately below are some of the most popular, favorite earrings chosen by our online audience. 

1. Mario Bros. Stud Earrings – $12.99:  these colorful, super geeky asymmetrical Mario Bros. earrings were understandably among our audience’s favorite pair of earrings. We included these Mario Bros. earrings in our Earring Capsule, simply because of their creatively fun, and highly unique look. Of the thousands of earrings being designed, the geeky gaming fashion look of these earrings definitely sets this pair of Mario Bros. earrings from other fashion styles and designs.

2. Cactus Pearl Stud Earrings – $18.99: another highly popular, more classic design of earrings favored by our audience of online shoppers were these fancy cactus pearl earrings. We included these in our Earrings Capsule shop because of the unique combination of the all too familiar, classic, conservative look of pearl stud earrings, with a trending, modern, and fancy design that is cactuses. The simplicity of the design behind these earrings makes them suitable for a broad range of fashion styles, from glamorous to elegant, to trending to exotic, and much more.

3. Black Retro Punk Arrow Earrings – $12.99: Another pair of earrings that received many clicks from our audience of online shoppers were these black 80s retro punk arrow shaped earrings. Granted, the mouse cursor arrow shape of these earrings were probably one reason why these earrings received so many ‘clicks’ and likes from our online shoppers, but the highly fashionable and familiar retro punk look of the black triangles is certainly not a factor to be discounted from the appeal our online shoppers felt towards these earrings.

4. Pearl Leaf Earrings – $10.99: A trend we noticed from our online shoppers was a preference for simple, fancy, delicate silver earring design combined with a pearl. As with the cactus earrings described in number 2 above, these equally fancy pearl earrings were also loved by our online audience. As with the cactus pearl earrings, these earrings combine the classic, familiar look of pearl earrings with the fancy, trending, delicate, and simple of two delicate sterling silver leaves.

5. Seven (7) Color Chakra Gem Ethnic Dangling Drop Pendant Earrings – $16.99: another completely different style of earrings that was also loved by our online audience of shoppers were these very colorful, eye-catching, ethnic Chakra gem drop earrings. Was is unique about these earrings is that they are filled with meaning and purpose. Some who believe in natural sources of healing energy might also consider these earrings as being useful. These 7 colored Chakra gems (‘thought’ in Indian) are said to each fulfill their own healing powers: the 1st purple Chakra (Sahasara, or Crown) is a source of energy to the nervous system, the brain, and heals depression; the 2nd blue Chakra (Ajna, or Brow Chakra) a is a healing source for the eyes; the 3rd turquoise Chakra (Vishuddha, or Throat) is a source of healing for the respiratory system, the neck, and throat; the 4th green Chakra (Anahata, or Heart) is a source of healing for the heart and lungs; the 5th yellow Chakra (Manipura, or solar plexus) is a source of healing for the digestive organs; the 6th orange Chakra (Swadhisthana, or Sacral Chakra) is a source of healing for the bladder, lower back, and abdomen; and the 7th red Chakra (Muladhara, or root chakra) is a source of healing for the joints, bones, and lower intestines.

Final Thoughts – Our full and latest collection of earrings is now being displayed in our Earrings Capsule. The above earrings are but 5 of 30 beautiful, trending, and fancy other pairs of earrings that were preferred amongst our audience of online shoppers, so make sure to take a look at the rest of our collection.

Happy SHOPologee!

8 Fast and Furious Racing Drones

Online shopping to buy a drone or perhaps, a racing drone? SHOPologee’s Drone Capsule Shop gathers 30 (or fewer) of the latest trending, must-have essential drones. Of our current selection, we’ve selected 8 of our most popular, trending, and furiously fast racing drones.  They are: the Falcon 250; the Walkera Runner 250; the Eachine Wizard; the Lantian 105; the Diatone Crusader GT2; the P130 battler racing drone; the V-tail 210 racing drone; and the Falcon 210.

1. The F-250 Racing Drone – For those serious about drone racing, the new, less well-known, and the furiously faster Falcon/F-250  racing drone is certainly one you’ll want to consider adding to your lineup of racing drones. Equipped with 2204 brushless racing drone motors, the F250 racing drone weight in at 580g, and its top speed of 72 km/h is sure to get you ahead of the drone race.

2. Walkera Runner 250 Racing Drone – The Walkera Runner 250 is unquestionably another popular drone among racing drone hobbyists. The Walkera Runner racing drone is mounted with four powerful 2204-2300KV drone motors and weighs approximately 400g. As with the Eachine Wizard, the Walkera offers an ultra-fast, responsive, stable, and dynamic flight experience.

3. Eachine Wizard Racing FPV Drone – When it comes to drone racing, the Eachine Wizard is undoubtedly one of the Internet’s favorite and furiously fast racing drones. Described by many expert drone hobbyists as being highly agile and maneuverable, with some drone experts even awarding it the “2016 Drone of the Year Award”, the Eachine Wizard features a 4mm, ultra-light, carbon 365g drone racing x-shaped frame with high performance, smooth, and precise balanced 2205 2300KV motors that offer prolonged and furiously fast flights. Its color, adored by many, is reminiscent of Tyrese’s Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in the Fast and Furious: Tokyo drifts.

4. The Mini Lantian 105 Beginner Racing Drone – If you’re a beginner drone hobbyist and are new to drone racing, the smaller size, ultra-light 8520 brushed motor Lantian racing drone is certainly one of the most fun flying whizzing machines available on the consumer racing drone markets. It weighs only 37 g and comes equipped with 8520 brushed motors. As a smaller racing drone, this one can easily fly through freestyle, home-made, indoor parkour-style racing tracks.

5. Diatone Crusader GT2 Racing Drone –another furiously fast racing drone you’ll want to consider as a racing drone hobbyist is the delightfully light and well-crafted Crusader GT2 Racing drone.  This super light racing drone with aerodynamic x-shaped drone racing frame weighs approximately 320 g and is equipped with highly efficient, powerful 2205 2480KV competitive drone motors.

6. The P130 Battler Racing Drone – Although the P130 racing drone may be less frequently heard of, it’s certainly not one to discount from our lineup of furiously fast racing drones. A smaller, palm-size racing drone, the P130 Battler racing drone is equipped with a 3300KV brushless drone racing motors and weighs 286.33 g.  It offers a fast, responsive, maneuverable, stable, and highly dynamic flight.

7. The V-Tail 210 Racing Drone – As the name of this furiously fast racing drone indicates, the VT 210 racing drone has a unique, special v-tail design that makes it particularly performant in drone racing tracks that have many sharp turns. It is equipped with the acclaimed RS2205 drone racing motors, and weighs in at 570g.

   

8. The Falcon 210 – Finally, we wouldn’t be able to complete our list of furiously fast drones without mentioning the Falcon 210 racing drone, a racing drone of the same family as the F-250. The F-210 comes in a more compact drone racing frame than the F-250, but its top speeds are just as great as the F-250. Similar to the F-250 racing drone, the F-210 comes with high-performance 2204 KV2500 drone racing motors and weighs in at 475g.

Product Review: the DJI Phantom 4 Pro +

Are you shopping online for a drone that will fly you to the next level?  Perhaps you’ve had a pleasant go at your kids 3D virtual reality drone, or you’ve simply drone tired of your own pocket selfie drone, and are looking for a more than decent upgrade in the drone department that will help you graduate into the upper ranks of professional drone hobbyists. Or perhaps you’re simply someone that likes to start from the top, and fall within the more limited category of consumers with a greater marginal spending propensity. Whatever the circumstances may be, if you’re looking for a top notch user-friendly drone with cutting edge flight features and technology, and that takes astonishing aerial photos and videos of pristine quality, you’ll definitely want to turn your attention to the  DJI Phantom 4 Pro +. Its salient features and specs are briefly described below.

Best Suited for Open, Challenging, and Scenic Outdoor Environments

Considering the DJI Phantom 4 + Drone’s control distance (an astonishing 4.3 miles, or 6.9 km drone-to-pilot control distance), top speed (top high speed of 45mp/h, or 72km/h), flight time (30 minutes), and size, the DJI Phantom 4 Pro + naturally maximizes its full potential and value out in the open. Unlike some other drones suited for the outdoors, however, the drone’s advanced flight controls and features (such as the multi-directional 3D 360 degree obstacle avoidance flight sensors) also makes it safe and easy to navigate, fly, and operate in more challenging scenic outdoor environments.  This is a clear bonus for drone hobbyists wishing to fly it through mountains, forests, waterways, and the likes in order to fully utilize and maximize the drone’s incredible aerial photographic and cinematographic capabilities. Its approximate weight of 1,388 grams (inclusive of the weight of its mounted HD camera), as well as its large heavy casing also makes it such that this professional drone does not fit in the portable category of drones, even less in pocket-sized drones. In other words, professional drone hobbyists might one to plane their date, or field trip, when going out with this drone. While this professional drone may be considered a top notch drone in the aerial photography category type of drones, its has its limits in that its ideal operating temperature (0 degrees celsius to 40 degrees celsius) makes it not so ideal to fly in arctic or Saharan-type environments.

Operation and Control

The DJI Phantom 4 Professional + comes with (DJI Phantom 4 Professional +), or without (DJI Phantom 4 Professional) an integrated 5.5 Inch 1080P Android Tablet mounted to the drone’s remote control.  In the latter case, a smart phone can be mounted to the drone’s remote control, and is compatible with the DJI GL300E drone remote control. In the former case, you the pilot get to enjoy a full five (5) hours of bright screen pleasure (the 1,000 nits-type of visible light intensity bright pleasure).  Aerial photographers and cinematographers will rejoice in the 16GB of internal storage and Micro SD card capacity on the DJI Phantom 4 Pro + ‘s remote control. Another great feature is its ability to operate on both the 2.4 and the 5.8 GHz frequency. This ensure redundancy, in minimizes the risk of interference in signal between the remote control and drone. This is particularly important considering the incredibly 4.3 miles (6.9 km) drone-to-remote control range (note that some have commented on certain rules that require a drone flyer to keep the drone within a visible distance, which can arguably shorten the permissible control distance of the drone, at least without extra vision enhancing props).  The DJI Phantom 4 Pro + ‘s remote control allows for granular control over various settings, features, and modes, including those that pertain to its flight, photography, and videography.

In-Flight Modes and Features

The DJI Phantom 4 Pro + has sophisticated navigational technologies, namely dual GPS and compass redundancy for same home returns. It has a pleasant and fun to use “tap screen” flight mode, in which the drone will pilot itself towards the destination taped/touched by the pilot on the remote control’s screen, making this drone easy to fly for beginners and advanced drone hobbyists alike. Other fun drone flight modes include:

• Beginner flight mode (a flight mode for starters wishing to take it slow on their first date with the Phantom 4 Professional +)
• Sports flight mode (offers, among other things, higher flying speeds)
• Active subject track mode (the drone locks onto, and follows a live subject);
• Directional flight lock mode (the drone locks onto, and flies into that single direction);
• Profile shot mode (a special photography flight mode ideal for taking close or distant profile photos of a subject);
• Gesture control flight mode (a flight mode in which the drone responds to certain hand gestures and arm movements);
• Spotlight frame focus shots (another flight mode ideal for professional photographic and cinematographic photos and videos);
• Narrow flight modes (allows you to configure the drone’s flight for more confined or obstructed environments)
• RTH flight recording move (a flight mode in which the drone records its own flight path directly from takeoff, a path which it can then use to safely return home for landing);
• Landing site detection mode (facilitates smooth landings by avoiding rugged, hazardous landing environments)

A lot more could be said about the various DJI Phantom 4 Pro + ‘s flight modes and features, and the way they can be used to creatively enhance the wonderful hobby of drone flying. Suffice to say that the DJI Phantom 4 Pro + comes with the latest, cutting edge technologies in drone flying, which in a sense contributes to the ease with which it can be flown for beginners and professionals alike.

Intelligent Drone Flight Systems: Obstacle Avoidance Sensors

As it was stated earlier, the DJI Phantom 4 Professional + drones shows its full colors in more challenging, outdoor environments.  This is largely due to is its cutting edge, sophisticated 3D, 360 degree, 4 directional obstacle avoidance sensors, one of its more salient features. Specifically, the drone carries high-resolution front and rear visual sensors with an approximate range of 0.7 meters to 30 meters (or 2.3 feet to 110 feet). It also carries in its left and right flanks 3D Time-of-Flight (TOF) modulated light sensors with approximate ranges of 0.2 meters to 7 meters (or 0.7 feet to 23 feet). As well, it contains bottom sensors to assist with vertical flight and landing, giving the DJI Phantom 4 Professional + complete, 360 degree obstacle avoidance flight control.

Amazing Aerial Photo and Video Capabilities, Even in Low-Light Environments

The sophisticated flight modes, features, and instruments, not to mention the highly stable, solid, and balanced flight they provide to this soft, quiet (only 83.1 decibels), smooth humming electronic flying device, largely contribute to its excellent photographic and cinematographic features and characteristics. The DJI Phantom 4 Pro + ‘s 24 mm camera, which contains a 1 inch CMOS sensor with 20,000 useful pixels, offers 4K photos and videos at an 84 degree field of view, 60 frame per second cinematographic recording, at a 100 MB per second rate. Its image processor reduces, or condenses photos and videos from 40 to 50 percent. In addition to offering adjustable aperture settings (2.8 up to 11), it also allows for different ISO range settings (up to 6,400 in video mode, and 12,800 in still images), all of which allows for amazing photos and videos in low-light environments, with little noise distortion in images. It also offers three (3) different image scales: 3:2, 4:3, and 16:9. The end result of a drone with superior flight systems and aerial photographic and cinematographic capabilities are visually alluring and clear photos and videos of the highest and most professional quality.

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While the DJI Phantom 4 Professional + ‘s advanced flight modes, features, and systems might, on the one hand, appear to make it more suitable for advance drone hobbyists, these same flight modes, features, and systems also make it easy and safe to control, operate, and navigate, making it just as suitable for beginners who may want to rely a bit more on the drone’s “artificial intelligence assistance” flight systems. While advanced drone hobbyists will no doubt maximize the value and use of the numerous features of this drone, beginner drone hobbyists will simply find themselves with a longer and more adventurous learning and discovery path. In the end, the features that one should rely upon to determine whether or not this drone is right for them is the price, and the superior photographic and cinematographic features of the DJI Phantom Professional 4 + drone. Anyone who has a valid reason or purpose in using aerial drone photography and cinematography will certainly find its higher cost more than justifiable.

How to Remain Fashionably Dry on a Rainy and Windy Day: the Inverted Wind Resistant Umbrella

Umbrellas and rain coats are becoming more important than ever as the number of expensive and mobile electronic devices we carry on ourselves continues to multiply: smart phones, tablets, laptops, earphones, ebook readers, and more.  If you’re online shopping for an intriguingly different and stylish umbrella that will keep you and your personal items dry on a rainy and windy day, consider a Japanese-designed inverted umbrella.

How the Inverted Umbrella Works – The concept is straight forward, ingenious and, with different colors on the inside and outside of the waterproof material of the umbrella, fashionably stylish. Rather than opening and unfolding like a conventional umbrella, the inverted umbrella opens and unfolds upside down. That is, when opening the umbrella by sliding its lever upwards alongside its bone, the inward folded portion of the waterproof umbrella material becomes the top surface of the umbrella facing the falling rain; the outwards surface becomes the inward dry surface that keeps you and your personal belongings dry. When closing the umbrella by pulling its lever downwards, the top wet waterproof surface folds itself inwards, with the dry surface of the umbrella’s waterproof material now being on the outside (turquoise). What are the advantages of the inverted umbrella mechanism?

Advantages of an Inverted Umbrella’s Design – Aside from standing out from the crowd with something fashionably different, an obvious advantage of the inverted umbrella is to ensure that the wet surface of the umbrella is folded inwards when entering dry areas, like your car, home, or a coffee shop. With the outwards wet surface being folded inwards when in its closed position, the umbrella can be placed on any dry surface area, such as a car seat. Having a dry, outwards folding umbrella may also prove to be more convenient, polite, and courteous in crowded places, especially in urban areas that experience polluted rain falls.

In geographic areas where strong winds are prominent on rainy days, the inverted umbrella design also means strong winds will not exercise a force that goes against the umbrella’s natural, uni-directional spring mechanism and frame. As typhoon-strengthwinds, such as the type experienced in Japan, were a concern in designing this particular inverted umbrella, its owners can be sure that this umbrella is as strong as umbrellas can get.

The inverted umbrella shown in above photos has a current price tag of $114.99. Its bone is made of fibber glass that measures 80 cm in length. In its fully extended, open position, the inverted umbrella has a diameter of 105 cm. It is available in 8 different colors: grey, dark blue, light blue, turquoise, pink, black, yellow, and red.

 

 

Dive Into the Wonderful World of 3D Printing with the New Mini Home 3D Printer by Createbot

Are you shopping online right now, looking to purchase your first 3D printer? Perhaps you’ve had it with all the talk around trending 3D drones with virtual goggles, and are looking for something different? Or perhaps you’re simply looking for a family friendly 3D printer for beginners that fits nicely in your home decor, where all can experience one of the very latest trends in modern consumer technologies. If that’s the case, then meet the world’s friendliness Mini 3D Printer by Createbot. Best of all its only $799.99, and currently on sale for only $599.99.

Esthetically Pleasing Modern and Safe Design – Unlike many other open-concept 3D printers currently available to online shoppers, the Mini Createbox 3D Printer‘s components are all boxed into an elegant and esthetically pleasing rounded cube design, with a transparent door at its front to observe your masterpiece. Not only does this protect the 3D printer’s various delicate components and pieces from dust and other undesirable debris, thereby contributing to improving the 3D printer’s durability and lifespan, but it also constitutes an excellent and important safety feature in that it protects from the temptation of touching the hot, moving pieces of the Createbot 3D Printer.

Perfect for your home, and any working space – Aside from having a friendly looking, colourful (the Createbot 3D Printer comes in 5 different colours), and safe design, the Createbot 3D Printer’s compact size and light weight makes it not only portable and easy to carry around, but it also makes it easy to place anywhere in your home or small working space, whether on a desktop or table top. Worded differently, the Creatorbot 3D Printer doesn’t require any complicated contraption or large working space (as perhaps best illustrated in this unboxing and setup youtube video of a large, heavy 3D printer – fast forward to 8:00 minutes in).

Little Assembly Required – Many 3D printers trade-off price for consumer labour. That is, you the consumer pay less, as long as you do the assembly yourself (DIY 3D printers). This can often lead to long hours of frustrating labour, and a malfunctioning 3D printer. Another great feature of the Createbot 3D Printer is that it requires only the most basic of installations before its up and running, making perfectly suitable for beginners wishing to dip into the wonderful new world of 3D printing technology.

User-Friendly Commands and Operation – Aside from the little assembly required by the Createbot 3D Printer, the Createbot Mini 3D Printer has an LED touch screen display, making its use, command, and operation all-the-more friendly to its users. It also features WiFi connectivity, as well as USB and SD card capability, all of which greatly facilitate downloading, uploading, transmission, and sharing of your 3D printing files. The Createbot 3D printer is compatible with Windows, OSX, and Linux, all operating systems that should be familiar to its user. It includes its own user-friendly and fun software to create your own 3D designs.

Great Specs – Despite its smaller size, the Createbot 3D printer features amazing specs. It prints at an astonishing speed of 20-40 mm per second, an impressive printing layer thickness of 0.05-0.2 mm, and an astonishing 3D printing precision of 0.1 mm, all delivered by a single 0.44 mm nozzle. These feature allow you to create 3D master pieces with just the right amount of detail and precision, within little time.

In short, if you’re new to the consumer tech trend of 3D printing, are looking for a well-priced, user-friendly, and nicely designed 3D printer for your home, whether it be for yourself, your kids, or your family, then the Createbot 3D Printer is definitely one of the best choices currently available to online shoppers. The Creatorbot 3D Printer will be on sale at SHOPologee for $599.99 ($200.00 off its regular price of $799.99) throughout the holiday season: https://shopologee.com/collections/newest-products/products/3d-printer-for-desktops-by-createbot-3d-309

 

Trending in Consumer Drones: the Pocket Selfie Dobby Drone

Online shoppers interested in buying a ready-to-fly (RTF) drone are probably interested in buying a product that reflects the latest trends and features in RTF drone technology. Our previous post focused on well-priced, top-selling drones for kids offering 3D virtual reality features. This post offers a review of one of the one of the best selfie pocket RTF drones available to online shoppers, the RTF Dobby Selfie Pocket Drone.

 

Well-Priced – Lower price selfie drones offering all the basic features of a selfie pocket drone can be found at a price tag not exceeding $100.00. For those willing to pay slightly more to enjoy the very latest features in RTF selfie pocket drone technology, the RTF Dobby Selfie Pocket Drone, currently on sale for only $449.99 (regular price of $549.99) offers an incredibly amount of some of the very latest features in RTF selfie pocket drone technology. Aside from being reflected in its ultra thin and light foldable pocket design (the RTF Dobby Drone measures 135 x 65 x 34 mm when folded, and weight no more than 199 grams), the RTF selfie pocket drone also includes a number of advanced flight modes.

Fun Flight Controls – In addition to being of an ideal size for indoor and outdoor operation, a feature that allows its users to maximize the use and entertainment offered through the Dobby Drone, the RTF selfie pocket Dobby drone also offers user-friendly smart phone WiFi control (this is opposed to drones operated solely by remote control) with a control distance of 50 to 100 meters. The ability to fly a drone using the sliding touch screen of a smart phone offers highly responsive and precise drone flight movements. Also exciting is the ability to control the selfie pocket drone through voice command and gesture control. 

Cool Flight Modes – The selfie pocket Dobby drone also includes a variety of automatic flying modes. For instance, a facial recognition mode and moving target tracking flight mode allow the selfie pocket Dobby drone to lock onto, and follow a specific subject, whether it be a recognizable face or object. The selfie pocket Dobby drone is wind resistant, and includes GPS with dual satellite positioning, as well as gravity sensors, as well as a high-accuracy orbit hovering function all  of which contribute to a stable, precise, and entertaining flight, especially when taking selfies, photos, and videos from the drone. Other exciting flight features are its push button automatic wakeup and takeoff mode, and palm takeoff mode. Drone hobbyists that enjoy a more thrilling flight experience will no doubt enjoy the acrobatic 360 degree flips enabled by the push of a button.

Perfect for Selfies, Photos, and Videos – Those who enjoy taking aerial photos and videos will certainly enjoy the drone’s automatic linear trajectory flight mode, a filming technique often encountered in classic films where the camera progressively and slowly distances itself away from its subject in a zoom-out vertical trajectory. The selfie pocket drone’s HD camera allows for 4K photos, 1080P videos, and offers a 72 degree viewing angle. The selfie pocket Dobby drone can easily and automatically be synced with your smart phone photo album. It has a number of exciting and fun optional photography modes: real-time live video feed; continuous burst photo mode; time delayed photography mode; apparent advance mode; and much more. The built-in electronic image stabilization, automatic flight adjustments, and time delay mode are particularly great for creative, stable selfies.

Last Comments – considering its current price of $449.99, the number of fun, advanced flight modes and camera features more commonly found on larger, more expensive drones, as well as its practical ultra light foldable designs, the selfie pocket Dobby drone is no doubt one of the best and most trending choices currently available to online shoppers. You can purchase it at a discounted price at SHOPologee.com: Selfie pocket dobby drone with camera and GPS

The 3 Alpine Griffon Drone: A Great Drone for Beginners

Drones with HD cameras, 3D goggles, and other accessories are trending this holiday season.  In our previous post, we offered a brief review of the T-Series T30VR3D virtual reality drone with HD camera and 3D virtual glasses, a drone currently on sale at SHOPOlogee.com for only $149.99 (US)(+ free shipping) that is, $100.00 off its regular market price of $249.99. This post offers a brief overview of a cousin drone, the Alpine Griffon AG-01 Drone, also a fun 3D virtual reality capacitated drone that is ideal for kids, teenagers, and beginner adults, and also currently on sale for the holiday season for $169.99 ($100.00 off its regular market price of $269.99).

Aerodynamic Design and Flight of the Alpine Griffon Drone – The distinguishing feature of the Alpine Griffon Drone is its visually appealing, fine-tuned aerodynamic design. Being larger, wider, and more robust, the area of the Alpine Griffon Drone’s propellers, combined with their rounded angulation, serve to decrease airflow resistance an facilitate an upward, vertical lift movement. The smooth, balanced, upward lift of the Alpine Griffon Drone is further enhanced by a perfectly symmetrical, aerodynamic spine that runs across the top of the Alpine Griffon AG-01′s top surface. While the design feature on the Alpine Griffon AG-01 – alongside its forward protruding propeller arms – fulfills more of an aesthetic role and purpose in terms of giving it a cutting edge, modern look, it does contribute to the ease and seamlessness with which the Alpine Griffon Drone can glide through the air. Overall, these features give the Alpine Griffon AG-01 Drone a light, well-balance, and responsive feel while in flight. The ability to manoeuvre into 360 degree acrobatic flips with the Alpine Griffon Drone attests to the agility of the Alpine griffon. For anyone less agile or experienced in flying drones, the Alpine Griffon Drone also comes with optional protective propeller cages, an add-on perhaps more recommended for kids or beginners.

3D Virtual Reality Goggles and 2MP HD Camera of the Alpine Griffon Drone – aside from its visually appealing, modern aerodynamic design, the Alpine Griffon AG-01 Drone also comes with 3D Virtual goggles, which adds a fun alternative mode of flying your drone. The virtual reality concept is straightforward; it is accomplished through the use of the Alpine Griffon Drone‘s 2MP HD camera, an App, and the VirtualAlpine Griffon Drone’s 2MP camera, which gives you a fun and entertaining first-person, bird’s eye view from the drone. While this feature may be common with larger, more expensive professional drone models, the ability to enjoy this feature on a smaller, medium-size drone at an affordable price is a real treat. Beginners would be well advised to get comfortable flying the Alpine Griffon Drone in regular mode before turning to the first-person, virtual reality flying mode.

Parts and Other Features – Except for a the Alpine Griffon Drone‘s propellers, battery, and optional protective propeller guards, the Alpine Griffon Drone comes out of the box fully assembled. A small tool is provided to help you easily assemble the drone’s propellers and protective guards. The battery can easily be snapped into place, and plugged into the Alpine Griffon Drone by hand.  In short, the simplicity of the parts that need to be assembled on the Alpine Griffon Drone make it user-friendly, and ideal for kids, teenagers, and even adults, especially beginner level, soon-to-be drone hobbyists.

The user-friendliness of the Alpine Griffon is also reflected and present in the remote controller used to fly the drone. It includes two standard, thumb-style joysticks, one which controllers the drone’s throttle, the other which controls the forward, backward, upward, and downward movement of the drone. The right side joystick can also be pressed down for “headless” flight mode, which means the drone can be flown without reference to its front or back. The video and camera functions are ergonomically well positioned in the centre of the drone’s remote control. The Alpine Griffon Drone also includes push-button flips and rolls.

Concluding Remarks – In sum, the Alpine Griffon Drone comes at an excellent price tag considering its medium size, unique design, 3D virtual reality mode, and responsible, well-balanced flight. The Alpine Griffin Drone’s easy to assemble parts and user-friendly flight controls also make it an excellent choice for beginner drone hobbyists. The auto 360 degree flip mode on the Alpine Griffon’s remote control will certainly be enjoyed by all who take flight with this drone. More of the Alpine Griffon Drone’s features can be found at SHOPologee: https://shopologee.com/collections/newest-products/products/drone-model-ag-01v-3d-virtual-goggles-support-and-hd-camera-d17

Fly Like a Bird with the New and Innovative T-Series T30 VR Quadcopter Drone with 3D Goggles

We’ve all heard the big hype around drones progressively yet very cautiously entering consumer markets around the world. These highly sophisticated modern toys for children and adults alike are only likely to get better, faster, and funner. While merchants around the world continue to think of different ways to innovate and improve these flying devices, consumers are looking to dip into this hobby with the perfect size and model, at the perfect price.

Fly Like a Bird with the New, Innovative, and Well-Priced T-Series T30VR Drone with 3D Glasses

A good choice of drone that seeks to innovate, that is currently well-priced, that is well-suited for kids of all levels of experience, beginner to intermediate teenagers, or adult beginners, and that offers to consumers more than a flying electronic device is the T-Series T30VR Drone with 3D Glasses (currently on sale for only $149.99, regular price $249.99).  As its name implies, the T30 virtual reality drone combines two emerging technologies in one product: a flying electronic device, with 3D technology. This drone accomplishes this by giving its user a first-person view from the drone’s camera.  It accomplishes this through a light-weight, 2MP HD mini camera affixed to the centre of the drone’s belly, a smart phone, and an App. The camera projects a live first-person feed to the smart phone connected to the 3D goggles, giving its user an impression of flying like a bird.  Beginners will no doubt want to practice their drone flying skills before re-adjusting this new and incredibly fun way of flying a drone from sky-high.

Suitability: Not too Small so as to Not Take Seriously, and Not too Big so as to Not Enjoy

Aside from the fun and innovative features offered through its 3D virtual reality goggles, this drone is not too small that it shouldn’t be taken seriously when flown, yet not too big or expensive that you feel uncomfortable getting it off from the ground. For that reason, this drone is suitable for kids of all levels of experience. Beginner-to-intermediate level teenagers, as well as beginner adults will also find this drone a lot of fun to fly.

Parts: Inexpensive and Easy to Fix

With its four propellers, the T-30 Series T30VR 3D Drone is more accurately be described as a quadcopter. As with most drones, beginners (and perhaps intermediate-level drone hobbyists) will inevitably crash their drones on first flights, sometimes leading to propellers flying off. The good news is that, as with most drones, the T-Series T30VR 3D drone comes with a full set of replaceable propellers. If one set of propellers isn’t enough, their standard shape and size and plastic material will make it a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Ultra-light and thin protective rubber cage barriers affixed at the end of each arm will hopefully prevent this from happening too often. The tip of each arm on theT-Series T30VR 3D drone also come with standard LED light signals: a red LED indicator on the back right-side arm; a green LED light on the back left-side arm; and two white LED lights on each front-end arm. These LED lights always make for a fun and spectacular night-flight. The T-Series T30VR 3D drone comes with a light, user-friendly remote control, as well as a T-Series T30VR 3D drone user manual.

Flight Experience: Ready for Take Off

The flight experience is comparable to any drone of similar size. As with most drones, the drone’s movements are sensitive, but light, stable, and balanced. As with any drone, new users will no doubt need to practice and adjust to the feel of the drone’s flight movements. The weight of the drone is itself well-calibrated, and its medium size, light weight, and relatively silent motors makes it ideal for flying indoors as well as outdoors.  Inexperienced users are recommended to fly the drone in open, unobstructed areas. If and when the drone crashes (perhaps due to lack of experience), the parts are designed to easily detach rather than break off from the drone. Being in an open space will make it easier to track and recuperate the drone’s missing parts.

Final Thoughts

The T-Series T30VR 3D drone is currently on sale for $149.99, down $100.00 from its standard market price of $249.99. With its 3D virtual reality feature, its medium size, and its suitability for beginners and intermediate level drone hobbyists, this drone is definitely an excellent toy to purchase, for children and adults alike.

 

 

Bluedio F800 Headphones with Active Noise Cancelling Technology: a Marriage of Fashion and Sound

If you would not describe yourself as an audiophile that is – you are not at all obsessed or overly concerned over the most meticulous sound fidelity in a pair of headphones – but do nevertheless care and enjoy a superior than usual sound experience when listening to music through a pair of headphones (enough that you don’t mind overhead-style headphones), then the Bluedio F800 Headphones are an excellent choice.

A salient feature of the Bluedio F800 headphones, with a current price tag of approximately $65.00 (free shipping; regular price: $130.00), is the active noise cancellation technology built into the headphones.  The Bluedio F800 include two (2) concealed microphones on the bottom edge of each left and right ear-pad (for a total of 4) that actively listen to, and detect ambient, outside noise frequencies. A processor, or chip inside the Bluedio F800 headphones then superimposes the frequency of any incoming or inbound noise frequency, and projects an imperceptible outbound noise frequency to counter and actively cancel out any unwanted outside noise. This avoids the necessity of turning the volume up to hazardous levels that can lead to longterm noise induced hearing loss.

Bluedio F800’s Noise Isolating Design – In addition to the Bluedio F800‘s active noise cancelling features, the headphone’s stylish, classic-like foldable design incorporates excellent noise isolating features. First in the intelligently-designed, large, and rectangular-shaped size of the Bluedio F800‘s ear-muffs, and second, in the isolating features of the foam material used to pad the Bluedio F800 headphones.

With respect to the shape and size of the Bluedio F800‘s ear-muffs, the anatomy of the human ear resembles more closely that of a rectangle than a circle. Combined with their large size, the rectangular shape of the hollowed ear-pads affixed to each extremity of the Bluedio F800′s stainless steel, padded, circular headband ensures that the entirety of even the biggest human ears are fully, and comfortably couched inside the hollowed out areas of the ear-muffs. With the visibly thick layer of foam padding on the Bluedio F800’s ear-pads, the overall design of the Bluedio F800 headphones’ ear-muffs incorporates excellent noise isolating features. Combined with its active noise cancelling technology (described in the previous paragraph), the Bluedio F800 headphones’ design is optimized to preserve a high sound fidelity.

Other Features of the Bluedio F800 Headphones – The Bluedio F800 headphones provide a full punch base sound, while preserving the clarity, sharpness, and finesse of mids and highs. The F800’s universal compatibility makes them easy to connect with any USB-enabled smart device, such as a smart phone (whether Android, iOS, Samsung), computer, or tablet. The excellent noise cancelling and isolating features of the Bluedio F800 headphones make them suitable for any type of music, albeit with a preference for genres with lower tones, like pop, hip-hop, R&B, and rap.

Unlike its Bluedio T3 cousin ($65.00), the Bluedio F800 does not come with a 3D mode for the enhanced surround sound experience you would want to pair with a 3D movie or game. The comfort of the ear-pads and headband, the 33 meters of reception range (or optional 3.5mm wire), as well as the 20 hours of operating battery life nevertheless make the Bluedio F800 suitable for an afternoon of Netflix.

Perhaps the best feature on theBluedio F800 headphones is the current price tag. For the distinguishing minds that enjoy focusing every dollar of a purchase where it matters, you can save a few hundred dollars for opting for a lesser known brand that offers the same results in terms of high-fidelity sound reproduction and quality, but also in terms of style and and comfort.

 

Risks and Opportunities of Doing Online Business: 1999 Messages From eBay to eBay Customers

The following series of messages sent by eBay to its customers while in the midst of implementing a new platform for its online auction service offers an entertaining example of some of the the risks and vagaries of doing business online, but also the great opportunities that instant, direct online communication offers for enhanced customer service and relationship building.

Date: 06/09/99 time: 07/12/44 PDT – After several months of working on a new way to organize information on eBay – as well as incorporating your helpful feedback – we launched the new eBay site this morning! Many of you helped us by testing our beta (trial) site, which has been accessible to eBay members since April. And others of you even participated in focus groups, one-on-one usability tests, and surveys … 

So why did eBay make this change? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Well, we wanted to make eBay easier to use for everyone, including new eBay members, who may have had difficulty with the old site. The easier we make eBay to use, the more people are likely to bid on items and to create more business for our sellers!

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A few hours later …

 

Date: 06/09/99 time: 18:24:02 PDT – We apologize, but we are currently experiencing system problems. Some of you may receive a connection error while this is ongoing. Engineering is working to get everything back to normal as quickly as possible. We thank you for your patience. Regards, eBay.

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A few days later …

Date: 06/11/99 Time: 02:00:13 PDT *** SYSTEM UPDATE *** Engineering is still working hard to complete the rebuild of the corrupted disk files. We will continue to update you as the recovery progresses. Thank you again of your patience and support during this difficult time. Regards, eBay

Finally, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and CEO Meg Whitman finally sent eBay customers the following note:

Date 06/11/99 Time 17:37:01 pDT – *** Important Letter from Meg and Pierre *** June 11, 1999 To our valued community members: We are sorry. We know that you expect uninterrupted services from eBay. We believe that this is reasonable, and we know we haven’t lived up to your expectations. We want to earn back your trust that we’ll provide you with this level of service… We want to assure you that our highest priority today – as always – is your trading success. We also understand that keeping the site up and running is crucial to your achievement of this success.  We cannot apologize enough for this disruption in our service and in your ability to participate in on-line commerce … We have taken a serious look at your priorities because of this outage. We hope you will give us the change to show you our commitment to your success and to keeping eBay up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our goal: uninterrupted service. No fancy bells and wishes.  We just want to make it work. To help ensure this, we are working diligently on a hot backup system that should automatically limit the length of potential outages to less than an hour or so. We have been working on this system for many months, and it is almost ready. Sadly, if we had this system in place a few days ago, we might have avoided this outage … We are refunding ALL fees for ALL active actions on eBay. We promise to redouble our efforts to make sure that another outage like this one will never happen again. Our sincere apologies, Meg and Pierre.

This last message exemplifies online customer service at its best. Not only was it sent directly from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and its CEO Meg Whitman, sprinkling the message with a personal human touch (an element that is often markedly absent in the faceless online world), but the apologetic message also exhumed a great deal of sincerity and care for their customers, particularly in their promise to redouble their efforts to make sure that another outage such as the one experienced in 1999 would never happen again.