DT Giveaway: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced drone

By Holly Smith Updated October 12, 2016

Wouldn’t holiday shopping be a lot more fun if you didn’t have to, you know, pay for stuff? We thought so too. That’s why we’re giving away some of our favorite gadgets – from drones to smartphones – for the eight days leading up to Christmas. Enter to win as many giveaways as you want, and don’t forget to keep checking back as new contests open up every day!

Over that past few years, DJI has essentially become the Apple of drones — and for good reason. The company’s Phantom series UAVs are some of the best, most user-friendly drones on the market — and the flagship Phantom 3 is the cream of the crop.

In addition to all the requisite specs and features you’d expect from a top-of-the-line drone like this, the Phantom 3 Advanced boasts DJI’s new Lightbridge technology, which allows the operator to see what the drone sees live and in HD from up to a mile away. It also has a three-axis gimbal for super-smooth video, and a slew of sensors that make it easier to fly both indoors and out. All told, this is one of the best drones money can buy right now. Courtesy of Drone World, we’re giving away the Phantom 3 Advanced package, which includes a backpack and retails for $999. Contest over

WINNER: John J.

Former Social Media Manager

Holly is the Social Media and Giveaways Manager for Digital Trends. Have a cool product you want to giveaway? Feel free to…

Topics

Emerging Tech

Robot dogs were supposed to help humans. Now humans are being asked to babysit them

One startup offered $20 an hour to walk its robots, with some heavy lifting required when the dogs overheat

GO2 robot dog

San Francisco startup Dimensional advertised for people to walk robot dogs through city streets. The New York Times reported that the job could include carrying a roughly 33-pound robot back to the office if it overheated. A lift home is an awkward requirement for a labor-saving machine.

Keeping the hardware running is only one challenge. Anthropic's robotics tests found that language models mostly failed when controlling joints directly, but did better when directing trained controllers. Giving an AI agent a body doesn't teach it to handle ordinary household objects.

Emerging Tech

Forget smartwatches; this smart bed could soon help keep you safe from being a fall risk

Who needs another wearable when your mattress could help spot fall risks?

Bed

Soon, a mattress protector may be more than a bed cover. Australian medtech company Sleeptite and researchers at RMIT University have received a US patent for FlexiSense, a smart bedding technology that tracks body position and posture to help caregivers identify when older residents may be at risk of falling.

The technology is being developed for Sleeptite’s in-bed monitoring system, REMi, and was recently on display at The MedTech Conference in Boston. A peer-reviewed study in Flexible and Printed Electronics says the sensors can also be made at scale without sacrificing performance or durability.

Emerging Tech

Anthropic’s sensitive internal data was exposed, and AI helped make it happen

Even the company behind Claude isn't immune to AI-powered security threats, as researchers discovered some worrying vulnerabilities.

Claude Anthropic Featured

AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.

The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.