12 Weird Uses For Drones
As part of his lavish marriage proposal, this man used a drone to fly the engagement ring to a San Francisco park where he was asking his then-girlfriend for her hand. How could she say no?
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At Las Vegas’s Marquee Nightclub, customers can have their bottle of champagne delivered by drone, as long as they order a minimum of $20,000 worth of alcohol. You can also get champagne drone delivery at the Casa Madrona luxury hotel in Sausalito in California.
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Commerce Township-based FlowerDeliveryExpress.com in Michigan did its first flower drone delivery in February and is now looking for consumer focus groups to beta test drone delivery services before going to market.
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A Shanghai bakery launched a drone delivery service for its baked goods last summer, but it was quickly shut down by the Chinese government for lacking a proper permit. The authorities also expressed concerns that the drones could pose a threat to the public.
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A dry cleaner in Philadelphia is using drones to send clothes back to customers. Although it can only carry a few light items, the store owner is working on a new model that would be able to send up to 10 pounds of clothes.
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Quiqui is a new San Francisco startup working with local pharmacies to deliver prescription drugs by drone to the city’s Mission District. Its drone will fly below 500 feet for $1 per delivery.
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Dubai is planning to use drones to deliver government documents. The drones could carry a three-pound payload for about two miles. Retina and fingerprint scanners would guarantee that the package is delivered to the correct recipient.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
A BBQ company in Atlanta has successfully tested a drone that will deliver its 30-pound MiniMax Egg grill starting in August, because as the company puts it, “When the urge to add a MiniMax to the collection strikes, we will just be hours away with a quick and secure delivery.”
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People attending the Oppikoppi music festival in South Africa can order beer for free by simply using an app on their phones. Once the drone is roughly 50 feet above the customer’s head, a parachute slowly drops the beer plastic cup.
Flickr/Julian Schroeder
A pizzeria in Mumbai used a drone to deliver pizzas to a skyscraper to beat traffic and cut deliver time. While the test was successful, the pizzeria forgot to get the permission from the local police, which wasn’t too pleased to see the object flying in the sky.
Youtube/Francescos Pizzeria
A Sushi restaurant in London tried to deliver a food tray by drone to seated clientele, as waiters remotely controlled the device, to show how “light, exciting and fun,” the chain’s new Japanese rice burgers could be.
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The Burrito Bomber is promising the world’s first airborne Mexican food delivery system. Once you order your burrito using a phone app, the sandwich is loaded into a burrito delivery tube, which the drone then flies to your location and parachutes down to you.
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