KFC's Kentucky Flying Object is a Meal Box That Can be Turned into a Drone

Nosotros don't often get printing releases from fast food joints – even though some do have high-tech pretensions – and then when we got one from KFC today, it got our minds racing. Information technology couldn't actually be fried craven for cryptocurrency, could it? Thankfully, it'southward only a drone. Wait, what?

That'due south right KFC is releasing a new DIY drone which comes bundled with its Smoky Wings snack in India.

Called the 'Kentucky Flying Object' or 'KFO', it is a small, ruby and black plastic device like many other toy quadcopters available in the marketplace, but it needs to be put together by the user as role of a DIY project. A printing statement says KFO volition exist available as part of a special parcel in select KFC outlets in Delhi-NCR, Bombay, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune and Kochi between January 25 and 26.

While only 24 of these will be given away for costless, KFC says that the device will actually exist launched on its website as a bonafide tech product next week.

Then we examine it'due south tech credentials, while ignoring the calorie-ridden snack it comes with. Firstly, there are four propellers, a 380mAh battery to keep it flying, and the snack box itself forms a part of the device – in this instance, the base of operations of the drone.

The package also comes with a transmission on how to assemble the wings, the motors and the motherboard to run this former chicken delivery box. Information technology'southward cool and should get kids interested in DIY project for sure. Here's a quick look at how it works:

While the KFC drone may be a cool new device, it'southward certainly not the outset time the company is bundling gadgets with its meal boxes. The visitor had before given away devices like power banks, bluetooth game controllers, and even a one-click button to guild … well, what else, just fried chicken!

In fact, the company besides launched a limited-edition smartphone final year in association with Huawei to celebrate 30 years of opening its first store in China. But 5,000 of those were ever produced, and they were sold for 1,099 yuan ($162) a pop.