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posted by janrinok on Monday May 25 2015, @11:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the freemium dept.

El Reg reports:

KFC Germany has salted its meal trays with a thin, flexible Bluetooth keyboard. The "KFC Type Tray" has been used as a giveaway in new KFC stores. Punters can take 'em home and use the thin, rechargeable keyboards for whatever they fancy. The chicken chain's cunning plan, however, is that folks who wander into their neighbourhood's new source of salt, grease, protein, and eleven herbs and spices will be so chuffed by the keyboard that they'll go nuts on social media.

The embedded video suggests that plan worked and that KFConnoisseurs like the keyboard because they balk at smearing grease on their smart devices but don't mind sullying a tray.

[...] Don't bother dropping into a KFC in the hope of obtaining your very own Type Tray: they've all found good homes.

In the comments, PleebSmash asks:

If they are offering these things at restaurants, how come a slightly better Surface 3 keyboard costs $130?

...and Jake already beat us all to the punch with:

I think you mispleled [sic] "KFC common sewers".


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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:57AM

    by Rich (945) on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:57AM (#187943) Journal

    Virtually everyone in Germany speaks, reads and writes in English. Unless they are recent emigres from a mono-language country. All the Germans I know do use QWERTY keyboards.

    The common German in its natural habitat will almost always be found typing on something resembling DIN 2137 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_2137 [wikipedia.org]. The keyboard in question does not even have umlauts. cf http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1439651/meet-kfc-tray-typer-wireless-keyboard.jpg [ibtimes.co.uk] for a nice big pic. This is not really usable.

    For the use case in the article, there are two more things to consider:

    1.) How would you navigate the screen? I don't see any pointing device on the tray.

    2.) Would an Android phone adjust its word suggestion/correction logic in sync with the keyboard layout? Or is that independent once an external keyboard says: "I'm hardwired for US layout"? I once accidentally switched my software keyboard from QWERTZ to QWERTY. It was nigh impossible to enter any German sentence. (Note the tray is depicted with the "world" symbol).

    Also note the gaps between the key areas. I can imagine a gap in the center like with these angled touch type keyboards, but here it seems someone took some some membrane keyboard from another vertical market application and just added a layer of paint (or even just photoshopped it), while retaining the "fallback" full-PC-keyboard layout of the original application. (Or maybe the gaps are there for better foldability).

    Anyway, the idea as such, although lacking a bit in detail, is quite nifty. If alone for illustrating the true value of the $129 Microsoft Surface Type Cover. :P

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