Comments on: Burrito Bomber: open source hardware-based drone autonomously delivers Mexican food

By: RandomJerk

RandomJerk — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:05:00 +0000

This is going to kill all the terrestrial-based burrito delivery jobs.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:14:00 +0000

My husband must never ever know about this.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:35:00 +0000

I first read that it anonymously delivered Mexican food. I was only a little sad to learn that I had it wrong.

By: jagedge

jagedge — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:50:00 +0000

In fact…
I was almost taken out by one of these just last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LEgxZ1TaQ

By: Kerouac

Kerouac — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:51:00 +0000

Use them to destroy whatever you want terrestrially… but I’m pretty sure the U.N. should step in and ban burritos on all space flights.

By: Tadas Jelinek

Tadas Jelinek — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:16:00 +0000

Here’s a reality patch: http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/

I’m not sure if it’s the same goal every year but at least this year’s challenge is dropping emergency package” for someone lost in a remote location.

Give this some more years and more readily available drone software and hardware we will be able to do search and rescue with swarms of cheap drones quickly covering large areas, taking hi-res pictures and then doing the search part by, say, crowd-sourced effort on the Internet.

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:00 +0000

I would support a shoe/espadrille/boot to the face world offensive.

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:54:00 +0000

Soviets were successful developing the Katyusha Burrito Launcher.

By: Kerouac

Kerouac — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:30:00 +0000

Only in Colorado and Washington.

By: nettdata

nettdata — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:10:00 +0000

By “burrito” they mean “drugs”, right?

By: freemoore

freemoore — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:02:00 +0000

Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels have something kind of answering that description. I hope Charles Stross has a go sometime too…

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:15:00 +0000

It occurs to me that there’s a glaring hole in my science fiction reading history that I didn’t imagine existed. I don’t think I’ve ever read a story (or seen a movie) wherein cheap semiautonomous drones are used for mundane, everyday, morally-neutral (or even benevolent) purposes. Drones usually end up wearing the same black hats (albeit somewhat larger ones) as nanobots in the corner of the canon with which I’m familiar. Anyone got any recommendations with which I can patch this hole?

By: jackbird

jackbird — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:09:00 +0000

You would need to call it something catchy, like FLDSMDFR.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:56:00 +0000

My God. If it could also play the ukulele, it would be the end of BoingBoing.

By: anansi133

anansi133 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:49:00 +0000

One kind of drone for locating people lost in the woods (or hiding from the law) and another kind of drone for dropping survival kit on them (or snot-gunning them)

I like to think drone technology will prove cheap enough that peaceful uses far outweigh the police state uses- but if they decide to commercially encrypt GPS signal – (meaning you pay for the codes to tell you where your plane is) - it’s all over.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:02:00 +0000

1 .Mount it to one of those military MRAP vehicles.
2. Call your catering service “Mmm-Wrap.”

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:50:00 +0000

I’ll bet you could use an existing T-shirt cannon. Put a turret on your food truck, and you’re good to go.

Deceleration for delivery might be a problem.

By: wavehog

wavehog — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:42:00 +0000

Great song. Who is that?

By: Jesseham

Jesseham — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:33:00 +0000

It’s Kozmo.com 2.0! This needs to happen!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:26:00 +0000

That’s it, I’m finally goin’ to law school. I’ll work my way up through the Public Defender’s office, maybe spend a few years in the DA’s office, then eventually I’ll attain a judgeship, or whatever the hell they call it. And every morning I’ll leap out of bed and eagerly iron my robe and powder my wig and dash off to the courthouse.

‘Cause finally, for the first time in my life, lawsuits and liability are starting to sound entertaining as hell.

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:23:00 +0000

Aw, man. I should have known someone would post this. Sorry if my post above steals any of your well deserved thunder.

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Ballistics will never be workable. Thank heavens for the Alameda/Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm

By: David McRaney

David McRaney — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:17:00 +0000

“Watching missiles fly down air vents, pretty unbelievable. But couldn’t we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? Know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, ‘There’s a guy that needs a banana!’ (missile sound). The Stealth Banana.” – Bill Hicks on the first Gulf War

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:17:00 +0000

Wait, does this mean Teh Terr’ists have won or lost?

By: Joshua Birch

Joshua Birch — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Move over P.W. Singer, I’m creating the 21st Century Delicious Initiative

By: jeligula

jeligula — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:05:00 +0000

How fun.

By: angusm

angusm — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Does anyone know what the Circular Error Probable (CEP) of this delivery system is? In the best case, a burrito landing on someone else’s property is simply a loss for the intended recipient; in the worst case, it could be construed as an act of war.

By: Kelly M

Kelly M — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:28:00 +0000

They need to mount a 3D food printer on it. We could then order and take delivery from an army of round-the-clock food service drones.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:26:00 +0000

I assume this proposal is just as serious.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Go with the black beans, they have less fat than the refried option.