The Drones Can Stay as Long as They Deliver Our Beer

With their use in foreign assassinations and warrantless surveillance, there are many reasons to be wary of drones. Nobody can criticize them, however, when they're fulfilling the all-important duty of delivering our beer.

OK, maybe there are one or two little things to watch out for with this German guy's booze-hauling UAV. Namely the risk of the drone accidentally dropping the beer – which in proper Teutonic fashion is the size of an oil can – and sending some unfortunate person into a coma. There's also the prohibitive cost, if the description in this non-English-language video can be trusted: "First delieveries [sic] might be in April 2014 but with 120 € for a five litres beer barrel still pretty expensive." For that price of $163, you could buy a Sam Adams Utopias brew and still have change left over for peanuts.