Your drone looks chilly, does it want this sweater?

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For a mere $189 you can take your drone from maybe a little chilly to definitely toasty-warm. Wouldn’t you like to do that for your drone?

If you would, San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin will help you. She makes this (the sweaters for drones) and many other things, such as tapestries of Pluto, tricycle-based pop-up shops, cloud storage systems that are actually physical objects, customized avocados, and signs.

When reached for comment Baskin told The Verge, “It started as a joke / art piece, but actually drone-owners in cold climates have told me that their drones have problems with their battery life during the winter. I was thinking that I should add pockets to the sweaters that can hold portable heaters or make the sweater electric so it keeps the drone at a warmer temperature, and actually this would be useful, if not just for novelty.” She also pointed out that some people are afraid of drones and a sweater might make a drone look less “cold” to them in the other sense of the word.

Here’s what the sweater looks like when it’s not on a drone:


As you can see, without a drone this sweater is just a nonsense object. I would glance at that and say something along the lines of “oh a pile of yarn?”