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Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone

Posted by samzenpus on from the amazon-air dept.

Z80xxc! writes "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed during a CBS 60 Minutes interview that the company is working on a service called 'Prime Air' to deliver packages by autonomous octocopter drones within 30 minutes of hitting the 'buy' button. The plan still requires more testing and FAA approval, but Bezos predicts it'll be available to the public in the next 4-5 years. With a lot of backlash against drones, and some towns even offering bounties to shoot them down, will this technology ever take off, or is this just another one of Amazon's eccentric CEO's fantastical flight ideas?"

11 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. This technology
    2. Drone capable of capturing other drones in flight
    3. Arrrr!

  2. Bravo Bezos for global PR coup by keysdisease · · Score: 5, Funny

    The NY Times, WashPost, BBC, Deutche Welle, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald and I'm only 1/2 was thru my RSS feeds. Now Starbucks, flying my morning latte through my kitchen window, that would be news!

  3. Harry Potter gets real! by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next up: package delivered by drone will sound a siren if not opened immediately.

    Personally, I would like to go back to the good old days when we used owls for that.

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    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
  4. Re:Watch out for "within 4-5 years" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, "5-year plans" are never serious...

  5. my first order by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    will be this.

  6. Re:Crime? by DrXym · · Score: 1, Funny

    Even better, you could steal the drone while you were at it.

  7. Re:Stupid media bait by RevWaldo · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a simple question of weight ratios. A one kilogram octocoptor could not carry a three kilogram PS4.

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  8. Re:Stupid media bait by Stele · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could grip it by the HDMI port.

  9. Re:Hacker's delight by CanHasDIY · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think throwing people into the mix changes things. People act differenmtly when there are people around, even to the point that apparently a paper silhouette of a person will reduce thefts.

    You realize Home Alone was not a documentary, right?

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    An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
  10. Re:Stupid media bait by Rich0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a simple question of weight ratios. A one kilogram octocoptor could not carry a three kilogram PS4.

    Depends on whether the PS4 is region-coded to Europe or Africa.

  11. Re:Crime? by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I also have never known anyone who's had something taken from their doorstep."

    Really?
    I just put all my waste and junk in a used paper box with some gift wrapping around at the front door and it disappears within minutes.