This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Nikon made its full-frame FX-format Nikon D5 digital SLR official today at CES 2016, having revealed its development back in November. The Tokyo-based camera manufacturer also unveiled the …

Call them drones or multirotors or quadcopters or flying cameras, it doesn’t matter: As of December 21, 2015, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requesting anyone who wants to fly an unmanned aerial system (UAS) more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approximately 25 kilograms) for recreation or hobby to register with the agency. The …

Have an Apple Watch and a GoPro camera with built-in Wi-Fi? Great, you can now get control of your shots straight from your wrist. The action-camera maker released an iOS app update so you can use your Apple Watch as a viewfinder, start and stop recordings and take photos and switch between capture modes. This is incredibly convenient for when …

One of the cheapest media streamers around gets a little cheaper for the holidays — sort of. Google is currently offering up $20 in Google Play credit when you buy one of its Chromecast streamers for $35. If you were already planning to blow some cash on movies or TV shows to stream, you can look at it as getting …

For consumers, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka drones, are mainly about photography or racing, but the industrial applications continue to grow. To help drive expansion into new fields, UAV market leader DJI has teamed up with FLIR Systems, a leader in thermal-imaging solutions, to create the Zenmuse XT, a thermal camera designed for aerial use. Using a FLIR thermal imaging …

It was late September when action-cam maker GoPro cut $100 off the price of its waterproof cube-shaped camera, the Hero4 Session, bringing the price down to $300 in the US, or £250 and AU$430 in the UK and Australia. That price drop apparently wasn’t enough to spark interest for holiday shoppers, so GoPro has brought the price down by another …

At 2015’s Mobile World Congress Chinese electronics brand Xiaomi launched the tiny Yi action cam, a GoPro-like camera with high-end features at a bargain price. It was only available in China, though you could pick one up easily enough through import sites like GearBest.com and BangGood.com. The camera itself is actually made by Yi, and the company is now bringing …

A high-quality print of a favorite photo is an easy but still personal gift for family and friends. If you’re going to print pictures yourself, you’ll want to get some high-quality paper. For Cyber Monday, Red River Paper has knocked 20 percent off of nine of its heavy-weight premium inkjet papers. The Red River site has thorough descriptions for each, …

On Black Friday — or more like from November 26 through 30 — you can buy a Phantom 3 Professional or Standard direct from DJI and save money off the drones. The Professional gets a $100 price cut bringing it down to $1,160. That’s not much of a dent, but DJI is including an extra battery, which is $150 on …

Feel free to buy or build as many drones as you want. The FAA just wants information on you first before you fly. Or at least that’s what the task force assembled to develop a drone registration process is recommending. In October, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) assembled a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) task force to develop a process …