Seems risky if you’re playing a game that generates too much heat... don’t want to burn your chicken.
The risk is more that the temperature is likely to be the perfect temperature for breeding bacteria.
KFConsole – Intel NUC 9 enclosure with built in heater for chicken wings
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#22While the announcement was silly, the insistence that it’s a real product is absolutely bonkers. But ultimately I think it is vaporware and they are just pushing the “it’s real” narrative for social media reach.
The Lifetime movie "Recipe for Seduction" was all the way real, believe it or not [0]. I thought it was a gag too but it was playing last time I turned to that channel.
CM could be taking the piss, but it would be kinda neat if it was real. I don't see a price or ordering information on the page, yet. So 50/50 chance this is legit.
[0] https://ew.com/tv/mario-lopez-colonel-sanders-lifetime-mini-...
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#23Let’s stop giving corporations free advertising by diverting attention to meaningless stunts like this.
Especially the worst corporations, like those in the fast food industry, that are a net negative to our society.
I’d like to see KFC and other fast food chains start being taxed heavily on undesirable macronutrients like sodium and saturated fat, individual items exceeding reasonable calorie limits, and regulated against marketing toward children like the tobacco industry (unless macronutrients of their meals meet health standards). Junk items should have disclaimer labels stating that daily consumption of those items will shorten your lifespan and/or cause health problems, just like cigarettes.
Obesity is our #1 public health epidemic and nobody’s doing anything about it. I think I read that obesity is a factor in 6 of the top 10 most common causes of premature death in the United States.
Over 80% of Americans are overweight and close to 40% are obese.
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#24I don't know why anyone who games would like to eat fried chicken while gaming. You have to eat it with your hands, and it's so greasy that you need to wash your hands afterward or risk covering your mouse and keyboard in grease.
That's why you game with a controller. Greasy? yes of course. But easy to clean after a long gaming session ;P
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#25KFC has had a rash of failed silly crowdfunding campaigns as part of their ridiculous marketing push. This is almost certainly part of that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc For Coolermaster's part, they seem like the kind of company that would dedicate a few engineers to a silly idea for the hell of it.
Thermaltake did make this cigarette lighter/cup holder combo in a drive bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ErL39wqO-c
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#26Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air.
KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.
As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.
source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-...
[0] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming
[1] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891
[2] https://timpelay.se https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbBVdzAPR8/
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#27This is a nice bit of marketing but... is it real? There's no actual information on the page, no links to any other pages/sites, nowhere to buy it, and no mention of "coming soon" or any sort of expected release date.
They mention it's patented... Assuming they don't just mean a generic air fryer patent or something, I would think that the patent process is too annoying for a straight-up joke. EDIT: And that said, 3min on Google Patents hasn't found the relevant patent.
I think KFC invented/patented the combi-oven, they could be referring to that. (A humidity/temperature controlled oven that can be used like sous-vide.)
Practically I kinda doubt you'd want frying temperature anywhere near a computer, but you should be able to get warm enough to safely hold already cooked chicken.
Edit: I think this is the KFC patent for the combi-oven: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5077065A/en
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#28Another half-hearted product attempt with no boundaries pushed. With a Core i9 they have the hardware to fry the chicken, not only to keep it warm. No wonder Apple keeps shoveling money into their bank vault.
Holy shit, this comment made my day.
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#29Let’s stop giving corporations free advertising by diverting attention to meaningless stunts like this. Especially the worst corporations, like those in the fast food industry, that are a net negative to our society. I’d like to see KFC and other fast food chains start being taxed heavily on undesirable macronutrients like sodium and saturated fat, individual items exceeding reasonable calorie limits, and regulated a…
I don't mind if the "worst corporations" do something fun like this every once in awhile.
At least it distracts them from their focus of "shortening your lifespan".
Also as far as marketing to kids goes, KFC is not really the problem that other fast food chains are, so its not really fair to level that criticism at them.
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#30Suck it Apple. The M1 is totally incapable of delivering this kind of heat regardless of workload. (Apologies for injecting humor on what is clearly an otherwise serious posting)
I can imagine the chart on a review...
>Heat generated (higher is better)