Aussie Company Planning To Use Drones For Textbook Delivery

First time accepted submitter Michael Harris writes "According to The Age, an Australian company plans to use autonomous quadropters to deliver text books to University students in Sydney. Apparently the drone will locate you via your smartphone's GPS, fly autonomously to your location, and drop the book into your hands."

TCP/IP over avian carrier?

[Anonymous Coward]

Delivering paper textbooks is probably cheaper than a month subscription to Telstra.

Re:Payload?

[nospam007]

"The text books I remember were all freaking heavy and don't "quadracopters" (six-bladed quadracopters in this case by the looks of it) generally have a very limited payload?"

They're electronic books on a small USB stick I guess.
But more seriously, this story misses a 'stupid' tag.

Next wave of modern technology.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Let us use the 3D printing technology to create papyrus rolls. And use an email to a post-office which will print it and deliver it to the customer's home.

Or we can speak into a smart phone, use an app to convert it to text, send it via SMS, the receiving app will use a synthesizer to read it out aloud. If the receiving phone has stored the profile of your voice, the receiver can actually hear the sender's voice, on a phone, no less! Oh, wait, some already did this. It is called What's App.

Re:Fantasy: CASA won't approve

[PolygamousRanchKid]

well laden quadcopters

African or European quadcopters . . . ?

Sheila ... I just

[Chrisq]

"Sheila ... I just shot myself an Enterprise Architecture manual",
"What 'ya want that for Bob?"
"Dunno Sheila but the fun's in the huntin'!"