McDonald's Happy Meals now come with a real-live video game.
Unfortunately, my grandaughter snatched hers back when I started try=
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to unscrew the back of hers with my car keys so I can't tell you too much=
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what's inside. But there's a tiny LCD (64x64?) with a clear plastic "colo=
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overlay, two buttons for "up" and "down" and a power switch on the back (=
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no compartment door to replace the battery).
I don't know what McDonald's pays for these but its gotta be pretty =
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cheap to throw-in to a four-buck kids meal. Figure $0.75 cents for the fo=
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and we're still talking less than $3.50 for a complete embedded computer.
Anyone have more details or seen a discussion somewhere?
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Ed Skinner,
ed@flat5.net,
http://www.flat5.net/
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