BY ALLISON FONDER From Core77

The introduction of drones into the consumer market really only took place around this time last year, so 2016 could effectively be deemed the first year of the drone. And as drones proliferated into the mainstream, interesting, creative uses for the new technology were inevitable—thus resulting in a ton of interesting drone news as well as some pretty strange applications.

To sum it all up, here are a number of unconventional applications to 2016's hottest new technology.

This year, a Chinese technology company called eHang released a video announcing their venture into creating an autonomous flying "drone" vehicle for humans. When we reviewed it earlier this year, the video had us highly skeptical...viewing it again, I must admit that not much in our minds has changed.

What's the best way to show your drone has the fastest, sharpest, most effective blades? You use the drone as a blender, of course. This year, Speed Motion Films used a DJI Phantom drone to try and blend pretty much anything that darn machine could handle.

...the Tokyo police force is fighting fire with fire. After finding an authorized drone this year on the roof of the Japanese prime minister's home and labelling it as a terrorist incident, the police started sending out federal drones flown by remote pilots to capture any unidentified flying objects.

This year, the Finnish are responsible for the #1 drone to haunt your dreams—introducing the Killer Drone, aka a large drone equipped with a remote controlled chainsaw. Yep, we aren't sleeping a peep either after this one!