KFC's Watt a Box lets you charge your smartphone while you chomp on chicken

In what seems like one giant effort to help you smear your smartphone screen with chicken grease, KFC has launched a limited edition takeaway box that lets you charge your mobile while stuffing your face. The 'Watt a Box' is being launched as part of a promotional campaign in India and comes with a built-in power bank in addition to deep-fried chicken parts.

The Watt a Box is being handed out in select KFC restaurants in Delhi and Mumbai as part of a competition being run on KFC India's Facebook page. Winners who order the chain's new 5-in-a Meal box have a chance of getting their food served with side helpings of Lithium-Ion battery and micro-USB/ Apple Lightning connector cable. Presumably, you're out of luck if you own an Android device rocking a USB-C port.

Lluis Ruiz Ribot, CMO of KFC India, told the Times of India that the fast food chain hoped to introduce "an element of utility" to its food boxes – presumably because serving your food in a container rather than directly into your hands isn't a utility in itself.

Ribot told the website: "Each one of us spends a considerable time on our smartphones daily, and the phone battery going dead is almost like a nightmare! No longer is that the case, with the Watt a Box around."

Colonel Sanders isn't the only purveyor of fast food trying to inject tech into takeaways: in March, McDonalds Sweden launched Happy Goggles, a Happy Meal box that can be transformed into a Google Cardboard-like virtual reality headset and tablets are popping up at restaurants for diners to get appy with their meals.

We'd take either over KFC's chicken-flavoured nail polish any day.