The continuous and long-running tech revolution has delivered to consumers a whole raft of products and services we didn't know we needed until someone came along and provided them. (Think Twitter, mobile banking, smartphones, just to name a few.)
But in this segment from the Market Foolery podcast, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool Asset Management's Bill Barker consider the latest plan revealed by IBM (NYSE:IBM) through patent applications it recently filed: a coffee-delivering flying drone that can anticipate when you're going to need a refill.
A full transcript follows the video.
This video was recorded on Aug. 27, 2018.
Chris Hill: According to paperwork filed with our neighbors at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, IBM has secured a patent for a coffee drone that not only flies around public spaces to deliver coffee; it also predicts when you will need the coffee. What do we think about this? My initial excitement about this story quickly waned, I have to admit, even though I'm someone who drinks a whole heck of a lot of coffee, I just thought, I'm not entirely sure what problem this is solving for me personally. I could see this working. Kudos to the people at IBM for having the foresight on this one. But I don't know that I need a coffee drone. Were you excited by this?
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