2013-12-02 14:21:33.86353+00 by Dan Lyke 12 comments
In light of the news that Jeff Bezos has announced that Amazon is going to be experimenting with deliveries by drone (though I've no idea how they're going to navigate octocopters through the FAA system...): Yoni Applebaum posts "A Day's Shopping Delivered By Airplane" from a 1919 newspaper, reporting about a New York Department Store:
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#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-02 14:49:32.614121+00 by: meuon
I envision a net/snare equipped drone gang being very profitable...
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-02 16:22:24.862308+00 by: Larry Burton [edit history]
The Guardian is saying Bezos is just trying to divert attention from other reports about Amazon.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-02 16:26:37.07391+00 by: Dan Lyke
The various drone-aware people in my social media circles are scoffing harder than the materials and mechanical engineering folks did at Musk's Hyperloop proposal. So, yeh, it's sci fi.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-02 16:33:19.288404+00 by: Dan Lyke
http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12/introducing-o-w-l-s/
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-02 18:53:55.849884+00 by: Dan Lyke
And, of course, thinking about Gordon Freemen and a crowbar: has anyone contemplated that Amazon may in fact be patterning itself after "The Combine" of the Half-Life franchise?
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-06 00:32:35.416498+00 by: TheSHAD0W [edit history]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrngvEok9M
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-06 18:38:55.721994+00 by: Dan Lyke
I'm liking the rockets, but I'm thinking there might be a future in Amazon Trebuchets.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-07 16:59:08.528654+00 by: Rash
As somone working on Air Traffic Control software for NASA and the FAA, who's peripherally involved with adding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (we call 'em UAV's, only you rabble call 'em drones) I'm with the scoffers on this one.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-07 18:06:34.098841+00 by: Jack William Bell
As I pointed out on Twitter, you can scoff all you want about Amazon's dumbass drone idea because it was already a HUGE success -- in getting everyone to talk about Amazon on Cyber Monday.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-07 19:44:35.332973+00 by: meuon
Astute Jack: Yep, it was all about buzz.. and it cost them very little for the amount of press and linkage it got.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-15 16:49:15.831362+00 by: TheSHAD0W
http://politicalhumor.about.co...rtoons/Amazon-Delivery-Drone.htm
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-18 04:01:20.809946+00 by: ebradway
Amazon would seriously lose money if Deer Trail, CO passed their drone bounties:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...e-shoot-drones-article-1.1543030
Order a tube of toothpaste for $5 on Amazon Prime. Shoot down the drone for $25 from the city!