SEATTLE—With its announcement of a new technology that company executives touted as the future of online shopping, retail giant Amazon confirmed Thursday that it would launch a new fleet of drones that continuously hover above potential customers until they order something. “This fully electric, autonomous drone can locate and follow any consumers within range until they buy one of the 600 million products sold through Amazon,” said spokesperson Gina Renault, demonstrating how the Prime Air lingering drone’s state-of-the-art tracking software allows the airborne vehicle to lock in on individuals and remain within a two to three foot radius of their heads for up to 12 hours at a time, regardless of whether or not that person is an Amazon user. “The red light indicates the drone is ready to fulfill any purchase of $35 or more, and it continues to flash until an order is confirmed and a credit card transaction is approved. At that point it resets and immediately begins asking for the next purchase through an in-unit speaker. Please be advised these machines do not carry out the actual delivery of your order, which will take five to seven days by truck with no option to upgrade.” Renault added that 340 million of the new drones would be rolled out in the United States this month, with the program soon expanding to 8.2 billion units globally

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