7 strange technological mashups

KFC is no stranger to unusual marketing ideas, but the Watt A Box takes it to a new level. Currently being handed out as a special prize in India, the Watt a Box has a battery bank and connectors on the side, so you can plug in your phone while snacking on biscuits. It’s a strange tech crossover, mixing a fast food container and a phone battery, but not, perhaps, the strangest in a world where anything from an umbrella to a drinking cup can be appified, magnetized, and overengineered to within an inch of its life. Here are a few other ways people tried to mix technology into everyday life and overdid it just a little bit. Warning: as strange as some of these may seem, you’re probably going to at least be intrigued by some of them.

The text from this slideshow originally appeared in this Uproxx article.