<i>it also means that, in the future, you might be able to call out a quadcopter to recharge your mobile phone</i><p>That's probably the dumbest, least practical idea I've ever heard. No wait, that's pointless hyperbole. However it is definitely a dumb and impractical idea.<p>Now, the idea of recharging remote unmanned facilities such as weather stations using UAVs? That makes sense. I don't know if the economics of it quite work out versus, say, solar power, but it makes some kind of reasonable sense. Recharging my phone, though? No sense. No sense at all!<p>What gives, random click-whoring author? There's a press release about a perfectly sensible, kinda-cool technology, but you know that "recharging weather stations" will get far fewer clicks than "recharging your smartphone" so you decide to make up your <i>own</i> pointless, clearly stupid application for this technology and lead the story with <i>that</i>. Shame!