This cheap drone might be the best selling gift in 2019. The idea is genius...

"The reason why brand name drones are so expensive isn't because of their technology. It's because the cost of advertising the brand name itself is very high." - Engineer for DroneX Pro

Over the last 12 months we've tested most of the drone models on the market. Typically models under $100 are very difficult to control even in light wind. Their camera also struggles to deliver high-quality photos and videos.

However in the last few months, a cheap drone model called the DroneX Pro has been receiving a lot of praise among experts. Is this inexpensive drone really as good as the experts are saying? We ordered one to test right away. Our impression? We're thrilled.

Why is this extremely high quality drone so cheap?
The DroneX Pro was designed by two engineers and drone lovers. The drones they already had were hard to maneuver and took low quality photos and videos.

They decided to spend a few weeks looking for better alternatives. After a lot of research and phone calls, they came to a shocking conclusion. The high-quality technology in most expensive brand drones comes mostly from the SAME supplier companies and was quite inexpensive to their astonishment.

In other words? They found that expensive brand drones are not expensive because of their technology. It's because of their brand name.

Armed with this new knowledge, they decided to create a drone of their own. This drone would be much better than the expensive-brand drones and be sold at a fraction of the price. They created the DroneX Pro.

Check out the following video to watch DroneX Pro in action:

What makes the DroneX Pro so special?
This drone makes beginners look like professionals. It comes with a professional controller and makes flying easy even for beginners. Even people who have never flown a drone before can have it working in no time.

Why Trump wants you to be afraid of high speed trains

(CNN)In President Donald Trump's world, Democrats are after your cars and want to force everyone onto trains.

"I really don't like their policy of taking away your car, of taking away your airplane rights, of 'let's hop a train to California,'" he said during a speech in El Paso, Texas, this past week, drawing a predictable chorus of boos.
He was talking about the Democrats' Green New Deal proposal, but it was a complete mischaracterization of what's actually in the plan, recently introduced by freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. It suggests new US investment in high speed rail, as a cleaner alternative to automobile and air traffic.
But that wasn't the only time the President dunked on rail this week.
Trump wasted no time making fun of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who announced in his State of the State address Tuesday that he was going to scale back a massive planned high speed rail project. The train might ultimately carry passengers from megalopolis of Los Angeles to the metro area that includes both Silicon Valley and San Francisco, but for now, Newsom said, they're just going to focus on the line from Bakersfield (population: 380,000) to Merced (population: 83,000).
Does California owe the federal government billions from its canceled rail project?
Does California owe the federal government billions from its canceled rail project?
"The whole project is a 'green' disaster," Trump said on Twitter, and demanded that California return $3.5 billion in funding for the project that was first doled out as part of the 2009 federal stimulus meant to kickstart the country out of the Great Recession.
The President loves to hate on California. He's trashed the state's wilderness management practices, suggesting its forests should be raked to prevent wildfires, he's criticized the state and its cities for protecting undocumented immigrants. His policies are at odds with California's opposition to offshore drilling, its emissions standards for cars, its legalized marijuana and more.
Newsom -- who, incidentally, used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who now dates Trump's eldest son -- quickly fired back, making clear the high speed rail money would not be returned and the rail system is still part of the California plan. But it's equally clear that the state started building something when it wasn't clear there was enough federal or private money to finish the job.
While the Central Valley leg was always supposed to be the first phase of the project, the fact remains that 11 years after voters first said they'd pay billions to build it, the new governor was transmitting a dose of realism to Californians. The over-schedule and over-budget voter-approved dream of a 200 plus mile-an-hour trip linking the most populous state's two most populous areas won't happen any time soon.
But why not? It feels like every other developed part of the world has invested in such trains -- they're all over Europe and Asia. Yet there isn't any true high speed rail in all of North America. Not even Canada has one.
The Northeast corridor, from Washington, DC, to Boston, has Amtrak's Acela, but it does not travel as fast as the bullet trains in other countries. Acela tops out at 150mph and then only for a smidge of its route. Trains in China, Japan and Europe zip along at more than 200mp.
Trump, in fact, used to complain about the lack of fast trains in the US on the campaign trail in 2016 he would use the lack of high speed rail to tell audiences the US was losing to China.
"We have the worst transportation system and train system," he said in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in April of 2016. "In China, they have trains that go 250 miles an hour. Over here, if the train goes more than 60, it's like collision territory. And we see it all the time - we've got to start rebuilding this country."
The backlog of infrastructure upgrades on roads and rails and bridges exceeds $800 billion, according to the Department of Transportation.
Trump's plan to spur $1 trillion in private infrastructure spending with a more than $200 billion federal infusion has not yet come to pass, in part because he can't find a way to pay for it. And it did not focus on rail. The Obama administration, early on, had a federal high speed rail plan, but it couldn't get money from Congress. In fact, the last high speed rail funding okayed at the federal level was ten years ago in that stimululs bill. And the only truly high speed rail project under construction is the one from Bakersfield to Merced.
Amtrak does have plans for faster trains, but they are hemmed in by their aging track system.
There is a private rail line in Florida -- Brightline -- that travels faster than most other US trains, but nowhere near 200 MPH. But it's up and running and moving passengers. Brightline has also taken over a project that would connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Ambitious plans for a completely privately funded bullet train between Houston and Dallas are progressing, but have run into problems just this week as they seek to acquire land in rural Texas. Texas Central, the company behind the effort, says it is continuing with its plans.
There is local movement toward trains. It's just very, very slow, particularly in the absence of any sort of federal leadership on the issue.
Trump's infrastructure plan focused more on "transformative" new ideas. It didn't specify what, but one suggestion is further afield ideas like Elon Musk's Boring Company project, which would dig tunnels to whip cars quickly in Los Angeles, Chicago and the DC area. That, however, seems even further from reality.
It was an epic train system, the Transcontinental Railroad, a marvel of engineering and determination, that tied the United States together and let Americans spread west with greater ease and efficiency.
But it was an epic highway system, President Dwight Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, a marvel of engineering and determination, that opened the country up 100 years later and created a sort of suburban diaspora.
And the US economy is built more around highways than around train lines today. Suburbs sprawled around freeways and so people outside of major urban areas need cars.
The highway system is funded by the gas tax, which brings in more money as people drive more cars. But while it's been a self-sustaining system, the gas tax won't cover the cost of roads for long. Trump proposed a gas tax hike in 2018, but it went nowhere.
The money invested in the Interstate Highway System coupled with the ease and independence of automobiles largely moved Americans away from rail traffic in the 1900s. Today, a lot of Americans might see high speed rail as way to give them independence from their cars. But short of bold investment, that's probably where they'll stay.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei: The US 'cannot crush us'

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Huawei's founder is striking a defiant tone in the face of American attempts to curb the Chinese tech giant's international reach and prosecute his daughter.

"There's no way the US can crush us," Ren Zhengfei said in an interview with the BBC that aired Tuesday. "The world needs Huawei because we are more advanced."
Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, is battling a US-led campaign to persuade American allies to shut the company's technology out of super-fast 5G networks.
Australia and New Zealand have already restricted mobile operators from using Huawei gear for 5G. The United Kingdom, Germany and others are considering whether to clamp down as well.
UK spies think they can handle Huawei in 5G networks. The US doesn't agree
UK spies think they can handle Huawei in 5G networks. The US doesn't agree
The US government argues Huawei's products could be exploited by Chinese intelligence services for spying — a claim the company has repeatedly denied.
US prosecutors have also indicted Huawei and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on charges of bank fraud and sanctions evasion. Meng, one of Ren's two daughters, was arrested in Canada in December and faces possible extradition to the United States.
The US offensive against Huawei has strained relations between Washington and Beijing, and threatens to disrupt the rollout of 5G networks around the world.
"We must protect our critical telecom infrastructure, and America is calling on all our security partners to be vigilant and to reject any enterprise that would compromise the integrity of our communications technology or our national security systems," US Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday at the Munich Security Conference.
Ren Zhengfei has been CEO of Huawei since 1988, building it into the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker.
Ren Zhengfei has been CEO of Huawei since 1988, building it into the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker.
'America doesn't represent the world'
Ren, 74, founded Huawei 32 years ago after serving in the Chinese military as an engineer and working in the oil industry. The son of rural school teachers in the mountains of Guizhou province, he has built his company into a global behemoth with annual revenue of more than $100 billion.
Ren, who retains the title of CEO, told the BBC that even if the United States were to persuade more countries to stop using Huawei gear, the company "could just scale things down a bit."
"If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine," he said. "And if the North goes dark, then there is still the South. America doesn't represent the world."
America's fight with Huawei is messing with the world's 5G plans
America's fight with Huawei is messing with the world's 5G plans
Analysts agree that Huawei's vast global business, which is strong in many emerging markets, could survive even if the US government persuades more of its allies to exclude the company's products from 5G networks. The company is widely seen as outpacing its major rivals in 5G technology, making it almost irreplaceable for some wireless carries.
Huawei is also a top smartphone maker and aims to overtake Samsung as the world's biggest by next year.
But it's still vulnerable. Analysts say the Trump administration could use the recent indictment of Huawei to ban it from buying vital components from US companies. That would almost certainly plunge Huawei into a crisis similar to the one suffered by its smaller Chinese rival ZTE (ZTCOF), which was crippled for months by a similar ban last year.
Huawei and Meng both deny the charges brought against them last month by US prosecutors.
Ren told the BBC he objects to the US extradition request for his daughter, claiming it's "politically motivated."
The US wants to halt Huawei's global advance. It may be too late
The US wants to halt Huawei's global advance. It may be too late
"They may have thought if they arrested her Huawei will fall, but we didn't fall," he said. "We are still moving forward."
In comments to the media last month, Ren said he misses Meng very much but also gave an ambivalent description of their relationship.
"It's a close relationship in some aspects and not so close in others," he said.
"Throughout her childhood, I was in the military, which means that each year I was away for 11 months, spending one month with my family," he said. "Our connection during her childhood and adolescence was not that strong."
In later years, he said, he was fighting for the survival of Huawei, regularly working 16-hour days. He admitted that he is not close to any of his three children, but feels indebted to them.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Huawei's offices in London with the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, in 2015.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Huawei's offices in London with the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei, in 2015.
'We still trust in the UK'
The Chinese government has vigorously defended Huawei as it has come under increasing US pressure and demanded the immediate release of Meng. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Monday that Pence's comments in Munich were "hypocritical, immoral, unfair and bullying."
She reiterated Beijing's criticism that the US government is aiming "to crack down on Chinese companies' legitimate rights and interests, fabricating lies and intervening in economic activities by political means."
The US is stepping up pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei
The US is stepping up pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei
A potential crack emerged this week in the alliance the United States is trying to build against Huawei.
UK intelligence services have concluded that there are ways to limit the risks of using Huawei equipment to build 5G networks, according to a report by the Financial Times. The UK government, which is a member of a key intelligence-sharing alliance with the United States, said in response to the report that it expects to complete its security review of 5G network technology in the spring but that no decision has been reached yet.
Huawei is already largely shut out of the American telecommunications equipment market, and Ren told the BBC that if the US government continues to oppose investment from the company, it will simply move more business to the United Kingdom.
"We will continue to invest in the UK," he said. "We still trust in the UK, and we hope that the UK will trust us even more."