Look!! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...flying drones.

This will be my first TedTalk report, which I’m pretty excited to do. I’ve seen other TedTalk videos before and I feel that a lot of them, are very interesting in their own ways.

I did a summary on paper of two videos, but I’ll just be writing a report about one of them. There where so many interesting topics to choose from. Luckily, I came across one that really struck me by Andreas Raptopoulos. He titled it, “No roads? There’s a drone for that.”

I chose this video because a week ago, I was watching a popular show called “Shark Tank”. Where 5 wealthy, self-made billionaire invest their money in a rising and possibly up-coming entrepreneurs. These young entrepreneurs job is to convince one of the shark to invest in their idea or invention. In one episode, two contestant presented to them flying drones, called XCraft. After their speech and presentation, they somehow convinced all 5 sharks to be a part of their company. I was blown away when they strike a deal with each shark for 300k for 5%. I knew then, that something great is going to happened in the near future and that’s why I chose to do this TedTalk video.

With that being said, I think Andreas have a really strong argument about having these drones in areas where there are no road and proper transportation for medicine or medical services. Just think about it, a ride or day too late can be a matter of life and death in some part of the world. What really impresses me is how durable these drones are in different weather climates of hot, cold and windy days.

Andreas had a great presentation with live and visual power point slide of the drone in action. He even had one fly to him on stage, which I thought looks very mobile and lightweight. There were several questions that he had mention but I think the one that stood out the most was, how much it would cost a person to use one, it isn’t too pricey but in developing countries, it’ll still be a financial issue to activate one.

Although there wasn’t any humor, this presentation was very well organized and focus driven. Yet, I believe lots of questions still remains as these drones are being tested each and every day. They’ll be put to the real test as billions are without transportation.