Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones powered by laughter

By | December 7, 2013

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Amazon.com’s flying delivery robots are a big joke, to comedians at least. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the company’s Prime Air project during a widely-panned profile story on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” last Sunday. The report, which played like an infomercial for the e-commerce giant ahead of Cyber Monday, was criticized by media pundits, who said interviewer Charlie Rose didn’t ask enough tough questions. As usual, humorists posted their snarky remarks first to Twitter (TWTR). One crafty wag, Matthew Keys, set up a parody Twitter account, @AmazonDrone , where a sentient machine cracked wise on his mission. “You didn’t think those Washington Post newspapers were going to deliver themselves, did you?” he wrote . Bezos bought the Post in October. Later he wrote , “Want to show someone how much you hate them? Send me to their house with a Nickelback CD. #DroneRevenge.” Rapper Snoop Dogg got in on the fun Sunday with a tweet that… Scalper1 News

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