Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging - Hack a Day

January 31 2011, 10:12pm

Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging - Hack a DaySource: hackaday.comYep, these cereal boxes light up. They're using a new branded-technology called eCoupling that provides electricity via induction, which means the shelves have a coil with AC power running through it.    I knew this day would come. Next thing you know, we'll have animated singing cereal boxes like in Minority Report.