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KFC Introduces Meal Box That Doubles As A Smartphone Charger (indianexpress.com)
An anonymous reader writes: KFC has introduced a limited edition 5-in-1 Meal Box to select KFC outlets in Delhi and Mumbai. The box has one mighty special feature: it will charge a user's smartphone while they eat. The company has partnered with a Mumbai-based digital agency, Blink Digital, to make the "Watt a Box" concept a reality. In terms of specs, the box features a built-in 6100 mAh power bank, and two USB-ports with the ability to charge Android smartphones and iPhones. KFC has launched a contest on its Facebook page, giving users a chance to win the box. You can watch the "Watt a Box" promo video here on YouTube.
Just as dumb and out of ideas all over the globe.
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When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
the aim is to make your phone smell of greasy chicken as well?
We do this in the UK also.... ...except the power is already in the KFC chicken itself, rather than a lipol batter pack. This project puts free to use dynamo bikes for the public to use. Plug your phone in, then burn a few calories charging it..... ideal if you've pigged out and want to burn at least some of it off!
http://eastdevon.gov.uk/news/2...
To you get to keep this watt-a-box after you have eaten your food? The article is not clear on that point. If not then it's not that practical. For fast food, I sit around 20min to eat. That's not very long on the charger. Probably give you 10-15% battery maybe? But if you get to keep this box then that must jack up the price???
Karma: Bad
Kentucky Fried Marketers
Table-ized A.I.
Whadda deal!, you get:
1. Fried chicken
2. Phone charger
3. Mini-TARDIS
Table-ized A.I.
Now this doesn't just include the food.
Do they recycle the box after each customer or is it throw away after use.
FFS Just put an induction charger in each table.
KFC in India has many vegetarian dishes to choose from. In addition to fried chicken sandwiches and strips they have fried vegetable "strips" and fried vegetable sandwiches. They have several spicy chicken choices we don't have in US KFC as well that are quite tasty.
You keep the 6100mAh charger.
"... I have eaten out of a dumpster, based on principal"
Meaning when you didn't have enough money, or was it those spelling errors on your resume?
I believe they sell mostly chicken and vegetables.
There was a scandal a few years ago when it was discovered that the grease that they use to cook their fries contained beef fat.
Powerbanks are great for on-the-go.
But I'm just not sure what benefit enclosing it in disposable cardboard brings, that's the gimmick - over just bundling a free 6100mAh powerbank with every purchase.
Great for westerners who get off the plane in Delhi and head to their nearest KFC, I guess - cheaper than buying one at the airport.
A perfectly cromulent Anglo name, sometimes spelled 'Rowan'.
Also not uncommon in the Indian subcontinent.
His older brother is named Gondor.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
That's all I got.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
It will be a nice layer of lithium for future landfill miners.
You could always drive a nail in the battery and enjoy the result, which might be a small fire or just some sparks. Fun either way.
Kaspersky Labs tries to crowdfund a USB charger "antivirus/firewall" which will ship for $25
https://blog.kaspersky.com/pur...
Google has taken some precautions with the mighty powerful ADB interface such as warning users and disabling even the option to display the screen where you enable it but there are several ordinary end users who wonder around with it enabled.
I recently had to help a hotel bar's laptop computer, it had like 10-20 complete strangers private iPhone data backed up! Right, it didn't have passwords I bet but all the personal photos, browsing history etc are there. Just imagine what a person who does it on purpose can do with SSDs and SD cards reaching TB range .
If it doesn't pollute the soil and water resources. Lithium in form we use in batteries is nothing more than poison for the environment.
They should get Brad Pitt as a spokesperson. "Watts in the box?"
So let me guess, when you're done eating, you just throw the box (and electronics inside it) away?
At least it's already in india, rather than needing to be shipped back there from here.
It's a meal box. Unless you don't eat fast food at all or don't order food to-go from restaurants, surely you've eaten tasty food out of small cardboard boxes before. Personally I don't eat out of a bucket either because I'm snobbish about eating meat on a bone with my hands. I'm not caveman. I don't need to hold the bones of the animals that have been slaughtered for my nourishment. Usually only *that* kind of fried chicken is sold in buckets.
I don't need to hold the bones of the animal slaughtered for nourishment as their rendered fat dribbles down my chin, but it makes the experience all the more satisfying.
/BELCH So, these charge boxes are grease-proof, right?
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Why not? They quit serving edible food before I was born.
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