{"id":8878,"date":"2013-09-07T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2013-09-08T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:28:19","slug":"mcdonalds-debuts-nfc-powered-happy-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/mcdonalds-debuts-nfc-powered-happy-table\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Debuts NFC-Powered Happy Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Seemingly just to prove that the mega-fast food chain is still a mover and a shaker, McDonald&#8217;s has tapped into Near Field Communication (NFC) in order to turn the tables on technology-obsessed children.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Singapore, McDonald&#8217;s is deploying the &#8220;Happy Table,&#8221; which contains the ability to turn NFC-enabled smartphones and tablets into race cars. Smartphone-carrying children simply need to hold an NFC-compatible phone up to the table, follow the onscreen prompts and, voila, the phone becomes part of a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">deadly Hamburgler race<\/span> kart-style race. You even get to play as classic McDonald&#8217;s characters like Birdie, Grimace, Mayor McCheese, and Captain Crook.<\/p>\n<p>Given the simple installation \u2014 the race track is really just a set of NFC stickers stuck under the table \u2014 racing is not the only thing that McDonald&#8217;s has in mind. There&#8217;s a whole set of McD&#8217;s-themed mini-games to entertain the young customer, including Whac-a-Mole and Battleship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"McDonald&#039;s: Happy Table\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c6ATOgEcR1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that this interesting concept is coming first to Asia. As many travelers already know, McDonald&#8217;s can be like mini-sanctuaries for Americans abroad, but at the same time, these fast food restaurants are often fancy overseas. They offer restrooms, air conditioning, ice, and even Wi-Fi.\u00a0 Once this &#8220;Happy Table&#8221; takes off, there&#8217;s no telling where it will end \u2014 Happy Meal, Happy Table, Happy Garage, Happy Heart Check, Happy Tax Return&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"https:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/360323\/McDonald-s-Introduces-Happy-Table-Play-Games-By-Tapping-Your-Phone\/\">TAXI<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly just to prove that the mega-fast food chain is still a mover and a shaker, McDonald&#8217;s has tapped into Near Field Communication (NFC) in order to turn the tables on technology-obsessed children. Starting in Singapore, McDonald&#8217;s is deploying the &#8220;Happy Table,&#8221; which contains the ability to turn NFC-enabled smartphones and tablets into race cars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[739,733,740,732],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mobile","tag-nfc","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8881,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}