from Nick Bilton at bits.blogs.nytimes.com If you present people with a new, exciting technology, chances are they will use it to take photographs of themselves. Take drones, those hovering, helicopter-like flying devices that the military has used for years and that are slowly, in miniaturized form, finding their way into the consumer world. Over the last few years, … [Read more...] about Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture
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QuiQui: Your Pharmacy in the Sky
While Amazon is hard at work trying to figure out how to mass-deliver unicorn meat and buckets of live ladybugs by UAV, QuiQui (pronounced 'quicky') is already poised to launch delivery drones -and their payloads are lighter and more important. QuiQui is working on delivering medicine via drone to the Mission District of San Francisco -and they say they can do it in 8-12 … [Read more...] about QuiQui: Your Pharmacy in the Sky
Amazon Hires Lobbyists for Drone Program
from Politico Online retailer Amazon has brought on a major K Street firm to lobby on its proposed drone delivery program. Amazon Prime Air has hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to work on “federal advocacy with regard to testing and operation of [unmanned aerial vehicles] in the US,” according to a new lobbying registration. In an interview with “60 Minutes” in … [Read more...] about Amazon Hires Lobbyists for Drone Program
Amazon’s Delivery Drones Could Work—They Just Need Trucks
from Wired There’s a big problem with the logistics of Amazon’s grand plan to deliver packages via flying drone: Sending swarms of aircraft from Amazon warehouses to American homes isn’t nearly as efficient as simply driving the packages on four wheels. But one startup’s plan to pair trucks with heavy-duty octocopters could make drone-dropped packages more than just a … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Delivery Drones Could Work—They Just Need Trucks
Drone Tech Embraced as Benefits Become Widespread
from business.wesrch.com Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), usually referred to as drones, are beginning to see a more positive response from United States citizens as benefits, public and economic, derived from its use by the US public sector become more widely known. As a consequence numerous states are currently considering drone legislation. Companies in the drone … [Read more...] about Drone Tech Embraced as Benefits Become Widespread
