Three hundred drones lt up the sky during Lady Gaga's Super Bowl half-time performance. The drones were from Intel and are popularly known as Shooting Stars.

There were Intel drones boogying behind Lady Gaga were previously used at Disney World for a holiday show. Numerous Shooting Star drones flashed, fell and assembled in unison, all controlled by one person operating one computer.

Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance is Intel's latest feat in a bid to take drones manned from individual units to fleets. Similar to Orson Scott Card's book, the principle is that one person directs the group, giving instructions and watching the drones' health. Intel says the technology behind the Shooting Star is boundless in its scale and can manipulate more than 10,000 drones at the same time.

The Shooting Star drones have a simple design and are approximately the weight of a volleyball. The frame is made with Styrofoam and simple metal cages that house the four propellers. Shooting Star drones are designed to be brought together in less than 15 minutes. According to Tech Crunch, Intel makes the drones in a facility in Germany. The bottom part of the drone is the massive, multicolored LED light that splatters in the sky, as seen on Lady Gaga's stunning Super Bowl halftime performance introduction.

Shooting Star drones are going to be positioned for entertainment uses, substituting more dangerous, more expensive and harder to control fireworks. The Shooting Star drones, however, need to be worked out on the legal side first, given the present regulatory restrictions on when and where drones can fly. Intel, in fact, in the part of Lady Gaga during the Super Bowl had to record some of the performance ahead of time to work within the bounds of the regulation, reported Slash Gear. In short, they weren't "performing" entirely live.