Love Is Literally in the Air, Thanks to This Mistletoe Drone

Do­mest­ic drones, the cour­i­ers of the de­liv­ery sys­tem of the fu­ture, can drop off just about any­thing they can se­cure in their mech­an­ic­al grips — pre­scrip­tion drugs, pack­ages, ta­cos. This hol­i­day sea­son, one suc­ceeded in de­liv­er­ing something that wasn’t tan­gible: a hint of ro­mance.

Decked in a sparkly red gar­land, a pi­loted drone dangling mistle­toe floated over San Fran­cisco’s Uni­on Square, hov­er­ing above the heads of couples un­til they kissed, as they are wont to in the name of hol­i­day tra­di­tion.

The drone was cre­ated by San Fran­cisco-based artists George Zisi­adis and Mustafa Khan, who de­b­uted a clip of it in ac­tion on You­Tube on Tues­day.

Christ­mas-themed drones are un­likely to turn around the tech­no­logy’s repu­ta­tion as killing ma­chines, but they could make some tech­ie’s hol­i­day party a lot more fun (or awk­ward).