Amazon to be renamed Cyberdyne Systems.

octatonic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25185369

not_the_dj

Excellent (or maybe not)....a big net on a long pole and bingo, free stuff!

octatonic

I guess they will have cameras on them to catch stuff like that.

Or maybe lasers?

frankus

just think of the hipsters we could decapitate as they impatiently hurry to retrieve their orders.

hywelg

Never mind the order, bag yourself a helicopter! Just need to find its tracking chip....

randomhandclaps

"I have a delivery for Sarah Connor".  They are already asking their staff to perform like cyborgs.

  

EricTheWeary

They interviewed a UK expert* on these drone systems on Radio 4 yesterday. Amazon saying 5 years is very optimistic - the technology just hasn't gotten that close yet and there are numerous practical and legal problems to overcome to make it at all workable. Just a bit of puff for Cyber Monday.




*I'm assuming Radio 4 did their homework right and he is an expert, sounded a bit shakey to me.

chillidoggy

"Octocopter."

 

And there's him banging on about getting a bike licence when all along he's had something else planned to get around in!

GuitarMonkey

This is just pre-Christmas PR for Amazon. Can you ever see it working? Really?

Bucket

Ridiculous idea.

stickyfiddle

Lol, wrong thread! If anyone asks, I was never here...

Phil_aka_Pip

Its 5 months till April :x

FazTheWookie

I suspect Waterstone's aren't taking this too seriously...

http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12/introducing-o-w-l-s/

roundthebend

I'm not believing it.

They say it's for delivering within 30 minutes of ordering. So, the item you want will have to be in a warehouse in your immediate local area - they'll have to pick it first so the travel time will need to be less than 30 minutes.

Even in the UK which is a small landmass, it would be a major logistical task to have a full range of <2.3kg items stocked in every local area. The cost to have the stock would be extremely high too.

In the US this would be several orders of magnitude higher.

TTony

FazTheWookie;96754" said:

I suspect Waterstone's aren't taking this too seriously...http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12/introducing-o-w-l-s/

Brilliant!!

TTony

Having watched the Panorama undercover "expose" about how Amazon's distribution & picking warehouses work, I'd have thought that they have other areas of their processes that would be more deserving of improvement.

axisus

Hmmnnn ..... I don't see that idea as having any legs.

monquixote

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/1986o1znpijacjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg