If you’re trusting enough to leave your £36-a-month smartphone resting on a table in McDonalds while you guzzle down some meat and bread, there’s about to be a good reward for doing so — free electricity from embedded tabletop wireless chargers.
The burger chain has announced plans to trial a system based on the PowerKiss/Qi system, which will see select European McD tables capable of wirelessly charging any device with a compatible induction chargeable battery. PowerKiss sees a big future in this area, offering a little dongle it calls the PowerKiss Ring (above), which plugs in via USB or iConnector and can charge in the usual manner through any phone’s standard socket.
McDonald’s and PowerKiss are a bit vague about which venues will feature this wireless tech initially, saying only that: “a limited number of McDonald’s restaurants in some selected countries” are in on it to start with. [PowerKiss via Slashgear]













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Seriously, PowerKiss Ring….. you should never have ‘kiss’ and ‘ring’ in the same product name….all sorts of trouble ahead
Do they run on horse power?
That’s getting old now. Talk about beating a dead horse…
Many now consider talking about Horse Meat a Party Foal.
Surely you mean a foal pa?
Damn, it’s so obvious!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
I look forward to this although it’s just going to be vandalised. We all know it.
That’s a tacit admission to eating at McDonalds…. (shudder)
I do indeed like to eat at McDonalds. I just love the Chicken Legend with Salsa.
Mayo all the way dude!
The only Mayo I have on a chicken sandwich is the Cajun Mayo!
Plug phone in.
McDonalds uses the jailbreak exploit to extract personal data from your phone.
Unplug phone, never know any differently.
found this heap i charger here