Teal today announced the public launch and immediate availability of Golden Eagle, a new US-made commercial drone system that provides aerial surveillance and awareness through scalable, secure, and rugged technology….
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The Verge | 07/20/16
The World's Fastest Consumer Drone Can Record 4K Video at 85 MPH—George Matus was 11 years old when he flew his first drone. "I was immediately hooked," the young man tells me with a grin. By age 16 he was competing as a professional drone racer and acting as a test pilot for new aircraft. Now 18, he recently finished high school but decided to defer college, opting instead to pursue a fellowship offer from tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He used that money to start his own company, Teal, which today is launching its first product, a consumer facing drone that a beginner can easily fly with an iPhone to capture 4K video ...
https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12234888/teal-drone-fastest-camera-quad-matus-thiel-fellow WIRED | 07/20/16
Flying at 85MPH Isn’t Even the Teal Drone’s Best Trick—DON'T PIGEONHOLE TEAL as just a racing drone. Sure, with a top speed of 85 mph, it is twice as fast as a DJI Phantom 4 and it will leave almost every consumer drone eating its dust. But its appeal goes well beyond air speed. Buying a drone typically means having a specific activity in mind. There are aerial photography drones, racing drones, follow-me around drones—it can all be a little overwhelming, particularly for someone who's new to UAVs. Teal wants to solve this problem with a modular machine you can tailor to suit to your exact needs ...
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/speedy-modular-drone-designed-pretty-much-everything/ TechCrunch | 07/20/16
Teal Drone Set to Blaze Across the Skies at 85 MPH in Time for the Holidays—George Matus has been building drones since he was 11 years old. At 18, he has built the world’s fastest production drone, Teal. The 730 gram craft will be able to takeoff at 70mph and has hit speeds of close to 85mph in testing. Drone racing is taking off (literally), and Matus wants to be on the forefront of the consumerization of drone technology. Besides being fast, his new drone will have access to an app store, just like your iPhone ...
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/20/teal-drone-set-to-blaze-across-the-skies-at-85mph-in-time-for-the-holidays/ CNET | 07/20/16
The Teal Drone Can Hit 70 MPH, So It's a Good Thing it Has Replaceable Legs—Teal is more than just another quadcopter: It's a platform. As it stands in 2016, consumers can pick out a ready-to-fly drone for aerial photos and video or for racing or just to fly casually. Teal is meant to appeal to all of these buyers, regardless of skill level, and eventually to commercial pilots, too. Behind Teal -- the company and the drone -- is 18-year old George Matus who has been flying quads since he was 11 and built his first one at 14 ...
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/teal-drone-preview/ Christian Science Monitor | 07/20/16
Utah Teen Launches Teal, a Versatile Backpack Drone—George Matus was just 11 when he started flying model aircraft and 14 when he started building his own drones. At age 18, he has started a company to sell vehicles that do everything he himself wanted in a drone, and he has already begun to manufacture them at a plant just 15 minutes from his parents' home in Salt Lake City. His company, called Teal, launched Wednesday with the ambitious aim of changing consumer drones from a single-purpose flying camera to a fully modular, multi-purpose tool ...
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0720/Utah-teen-launches-Teal-a-versatile-backpack-drone FORTUNE | 07/20/16
This Teenage Entrepreneur Raised $2.8 Million for His Drone Startup In-Between High School Classes—George Matus graduated from high school in May, but his schedule is crazier than ever. While most of his former classmates are catching up on sleep after the marathon that is senior year, Matus is lucky if he averages six hours a night. As the 18-year-old has learned, sleep is a luxury when you’re the founder and chief executive of an early-stage startup. In the weeks since school ended, it’s been a race to get everything ready — from building a website to ironing out a warranty policy — before the public unveiling of his company ...
https://fortune.com/2016/07/20/this-teenage-entrepreneur-raised-2-8-million-for-his-drone-startup-in-between-high-school-classes/ CNN Business | 07/21/16
This Drone Flies 70 MPH and it was Made by an 18-year-old—By age 12, Matus had already built his first flying quadcopter and was serving as a test pilot for a drone company. Five years later, he was selected among 2,800 applicants to be a Thiel Fellow from the Peter Thiel's Foundation. The organization pays young entrepreneurs $100,000 over the course of two years in exchange for skipping college or dropping out to work on their own ventures. Now, Matus is launching his own consumer drone brand, Teal. His drones, which are available for pre-order starting Wednesday for $1,299, will be capable of flying as fast as 70 mph and sustaining winds of up to 40 mph, Matus told CNNMoney. That makes them faster than current out-of-the-box drones on the market ...
https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/20/technology/thiel-fellow-launches-teal-drone-startup/ New Scientist | 07/27/16
How Drones are Learning to Find Their Own Way in the World—When you’re zipping through the air at 60 kilometers per hour, it can be hard to work out where you’re going. But now drones can create detailed 3D maps as they fly – an advance that could let them navigate the world free from human input. Called Hydra Fusion, the system could one day allow drones to use a form of navigation known as simultaneous localization and mapping to find their way in unfamiliar spaces – just as some robots do on the ground. It will also make them better at aerial surveillance. Hydra Fusion works by stitching together multiple images – in this case, consecutive frames of footage from a drone’s video camera – to form a detailed 3D map while it is in the air. “We can fly a drone along at 30 knots and create a map as we go,” says John Molberg at Lockheed Martin, part of the team behind the system ...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130842-600-how-drones-are-learning-to-find-their-own-way-in-the-world/ 