Anti-Paparazzi VTOL Drones Considered

Obviously the rich and famous have a love-hate relationship with the paparazzi. You see, the famous folks need the media attention to propel their fame, but also want privacy, thus, causing a severe case of "catch-22" in their professional and personal lives. Recently, our think tank began to consider all this and determined that their just might be a way to fix this challenge, so let's take a future look at some of the solutions to this, shall we?

First, we contemplated the use of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off-and-Landing) UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) which could go and grab paparazzi model helicopter platform micro-air-vehicles or MAVs and retrieve them and commandeer them for trespassing on the famous person's personal privacy and airspace. In other words, a larger UAV would take grab the smaller MAV owned by the paparazzi just as a falcon captures other birds in mid-flight. Once the MAV was taken prisoner, the paparazzi would be out significant dollars, film, hardware, thus, would think twice next time.

Another option would be to have a VTOL MAV owned by the token rich and famous person which would come in close and take the picture of the paparazzi following them to hand over to police - for instance it would take their pictures and match their face up with Facebook's "FRT" or Facial Recognition Technologies. Meaning the paparazzi was now the victim and not the famous person. That may or may not fly in court, but it was at least one thought.

An even more intriguing concept was discussed at our think tank, whereby, a very large VTOL UAV would just grab the paparazzi and pick them up, and drop them off somewhere. For instance if they are in Malibu, drop them off into the Malibu Lagoon, or take them 100-yards out in the surf and let them go about 35 feet above the water - fully clothed, with camera gear. Their electronics would be toast, and if they are using regular film, it would be ruined by the salt water as well.

"All is fair in love and war" as they say - and since the paparazzi know no bounds, why should the wealthy folks play by the standard rules of society either? Now for the more expensive part of this equation; namely the cost of drones - a large UAV that could pick up and over power a human would have to be large and strong like a Prehistoric Pterodactyl, and well, that could run almost a million dollars or more for the robotic version, as it would need all of those sensors as to not injure the person when it grabs them and drops them off.

A rich and famous person could afford this, of course for that kind of money one could just double the pay of the paparazzi so they would leave them alone or hire a bodyguard to chase them down, and make a citizen's arrest. The small UAVs could easily run under $40,000 and suffice, as stated above. Thus, there are many options available still, so please consider all this.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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