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Food water Wi-Fi. Is this the future of humanitarian aid?

by John Martin Bauer.

The pouncer was designed to be the world's first edible drone.

The drone would fly one way into dangerous conflict-affected

communities where starving civilians would take it apart and then cook and

eat its components. The snub-nosed delta-shaped aircraft with a wing span of nine feet

was designed to deliver a payload of 50 kilograms of food enough to feed 100 people

for a day.

Each one would cost $300.

Designed in 2014, the Pouncer was the brain child of Nigel Gifford,

a British entrepreneur and adventurer who resolved to use

drones to fly aid to dangerous places. In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times,

Gifford explained that he was considering using honeycomb, a structurally

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