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Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?

• Mikeb85 9y ago
  For real, I read everything I could on their site. They do mention living birds, I don't know why I'm still sceptical...
• druiid 9y ago
  I don't see any way this could be real, personally. As a previous owner of pigeons, they don't generally fly to random places. You release them somewhere and they fly to a place they KNOW (their coop generally). That in and of itself is amazing, but yeah, I don't know any way you'd be able to get them to fly random places... not to mention predatory birds and such. Also, even if it was 'real' at some point, none of their stuff has been updated at all since 2015/2016.
• troupe 9y ago
  Since sending messages by homing pigeon requires taking a pigeon from location A and then releasing it with a message so it will fly back home to location A, I'm going to guess this isn't real. Unless every customer has to install a pigeon coop to raise birds that will head home to that location.
  • EA 9y ago
    They have servos on the wings and neck of the birds. On the back is an rPi or some small computer. They have a long wire antenna (looked to be 1 meter long) dangling from the computer. I am guessing they are controlling the servos via the rPi and doing midcourse updates over the air.
  • lojack 9y ago
    You can also train them to have a secondary home and fly between their primary and secondary home in order to achieve full duplex messaging.