To sate attendees beer thirst, South Africa’s Oppikoppi Music Festival plans to deliver beer by way of drones.
According to the festival’s organizers, attendees will be able to use their cell phones to place orders to be delivered by an octocopter, an eight-rotored unmanned vehicle as shown in the photo above.
The drone will target recipients using GPS tracking to the order’s phone with single beers being parachuted from high above the field.
According to festival organizers, campers will be able to use their phone to queue up a drone-delivered brew. For now, the drones are remotely-controlled, but a Facebook post by organizers suggests the process will be fully automated by the time the event takes place, this August.
“OppiKoppi beer drone technology v1.1: This is the sort of ordinance drones should really deliver all over the world. More updates to follow, but you will be able to order beers from your phone to the District 9 campsite in 2013. At the moment it is hand guided, but it will eventually fly on a gps grid. We will send word.”
You can watch a short clip presented by event organizers below:
Here is a short news clip on the drone as well:
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