--- title: Martha Stewart Has a Drone description: Martha Stewart has a drone, but she only does boring stuff with it. canonical: https://time.com/110682/martha-stewart-has-a-drone/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-23T17:28:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:59.054Z og:title: Martha Stewart Has a Drone, Doesn't Do Anything Cool With It og:description: Martha Stewart has a drone, but she only does boring stuff with it. og:url: https://time.com/110682/martha-stewart-has-a-drone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea7724c77c27aafa/698690bb13c79f80ff192387/163158786.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Martha Stewart Testifies In Macy's Exclusivity Suit Against Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Martha Stewart Has a Drone, Doesn't Do Anything Cool With It twitter:description: Martha Stewart has a drone, but she only does boring stuff with it. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea7724c77c27aafa/698690bb13c79f80ff192387/163158786.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Martha Stewart Has a Drone Because Sure, Why Not > Sponsored content. 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Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg \*\*\* Local Caption \*\*\* Martha Stewart Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent May 23, 2014 5:28 PM UTC Martha Stewart has a drone, but she only does boring stuff with it. The lifestyle queen told [_Vanity Fair_](http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/martha-stewart-drones-hermes-all-about-women-event) that she doesn’t use her drone for anything cool like tracking down prison yard enemies. She just uses it to take pretty pictures. “It has a little camera. You connect it to your iPhone, and you can control it with your iPhone, and it flies all over my farm and takes pictures,” she said. “It takes wonderful aerial photographs.” It sounds like Stewart treats her drone more like a kite than an awesome espionage machine that can rain death from the air. “I keep it up pretty high,” she said. “And you can control the altitude, you can control the speed, you can control where it’s going. It’s easy to use, actually. You can really control it, it’s gentle. It’s lightweight, too; it’s very beautiful.” So none of us have anything to worry about from Martha Stewart and her totally-not-deadly drone. 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