Lou... 3,118 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 According to the excerpt below which appeared in the Orlando Sentinel today, Disney has filed three Patent applications for some pretty cool stuff. By Steven FordOrlando Sentinel1:11 a.m. EDT, August 25, 2014 One of the applications is for a multi-drone system that would hold aloft a projection screen for a nighttime display. Such a display would utilize what Disney calls “flixels,” which is an Imagineer word creation for “floating pixels,” according to the background information Disney submitted. In the second patent application, Disney said “the UAVs execute the flight plans to move and to position the flexible projection screens within the display air space,” according to the patent application abstract. These multiple flexible projection screens, Disney says, would have little wind resistance and offer a surface for reflecting light. With both of these patents, the systems could be used for the drones to carry either screens for displays or lights overhead. Both would be lightweight and flexible enough to move easily and be controlled from the ground. Of course, both easily could be seen as creating a high-tech digital fireworks show overhead that would be safer and more controlled – and which would cost less than the nightly pyrotechnics that go off at the parks now, as well. The third patent application is as bizarre-sounding as it is futurist in concept. It would use multiple drones attached to balloons or super-large puppets to make them move – and in the case of the puppets, seemingly walk – as the drones control the movements of the characters’ limbs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveInTN 3,247 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 There goes another billion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tri-Circle-D 2,059 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 This all sounds like it will work great in Florida's mild weather. TCD fladogfan aka Gretchen 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Katman1356...Jason 1,140 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I know I dont have real reason to stay and watch a digital fireworks show. I can watch those on Youtube. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mtnmanky...aka Leon 72 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 It sounds like some pretty neat technology. I may need to go browse around the patent office site! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveInTN 3,247 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Coming soon to the skies over Magic Kingdom.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCMLo-8yZF4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lou... 3,118 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I may need to go browse around the patent office site! While you're there, look up this one 5,509,965. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mtnmanky...aka Leon 72 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 While you're there, look up this one 5,509,965. Well outside my engineering experience (as a broadcast engineer) but that is cool! (pun fully intended!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Drone display rained out for the 250th day in a row.... C'mon down the weathers great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lou... 3,118 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 but that is cool! Hey, what can I say, I got a million of them. That's an exaggeration.While the robotic machine was complex, the end product was not. It was a plastic Coke bottle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mtnmanky...aka Leon 72 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Hey, what can I say, I got a million of them. That's an exaggeration.While the robotic machine was complex, the end product was not. It was a plastic Coke bottle. Shhh! We never tell 'em what is behind the green curtain, remember??? :rofl3: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lou... 3,118 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Shhh!We never tell 'em what is behind the green curtain, remember??? Oh ok.Coke bottles are made by flying monkeys that are dressed like Bellmen. Why were they dressed like that anyway? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mtnmanky...aka Leon 72 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Union rules.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mouseketab.....Carol 1,261 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I'm digging the UAS technology. Remember all that time I spent in Corpus Christi last year? Well we won that effort. In cooperation with Texas A&M University and the State of Texas. We are now one of 6 FAA test sites around the country to test UAS technology for all commercial use. (The military can test on their own property). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lou... 3,118 Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'm digging the UAS technology.If this does go anywhere, which I doubt, I wonder if they'll resurrect the old landing strip for the UAV/UAS aircraft. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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