05-30-2015, 08:34 PM
As if I need say it again, Onamuji and MrNoBody are right. The media is talking about 'drones' (or what currently masquerades as one) as if they were a new thing. In this sense, they've been around for decades. What's changed relatively recently is the advent of cheap gyro stabilized remote controlled toy 'copters' that have (because of the gyro) made flying theses things magnitudes easier, thereby making them accessible to a far wider group of people (who otherwise wouldn't have the skill to fly such devices).