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OCTOBER 13, 2017|TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE

DelivAir Launches Drone-to-Hand Delivery (Literally)

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The last 50 feet is a problem for automated delivery and I have seen lots of solutions, from Amazon's parachute drones to Mercedes' delivery truck with drones. What if you could send the drone to a person instead of to a place? If you combined this with a tracking app on your phone or even with address data from what3words, this could be the best drone delivery solution yet ... and life saving if it were used to deliver urgent healthcare devices like a portable defibrillator or medicine like epipen. Read the full story on Engadget > Love non-obvious stories? Get my weekly newsletter with stories like this one along with a short but useful analysis of why it matters ... all delivered directly to your inbox every Thursday morning!

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