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morkalork ◴[] No.41889683[source]
Coming soon to monitors with integrated webcams: please drink verification can to continue working!
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1. tokai ◴[] No.41889813[source]
Doesn't microsoft have that patented?
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2. Randor ◴[] No.41889961[source]
I know you guys are joking, but there use to be a Microsoft energy drink, that was only available to employees.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft+employee+Talking+R...

The blue one actually tasted really good. Was available on campus for several years in nearly every building. :)

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3. zinekeller ◴[] No.41890194[source]
Actually, it's Sony's patent 8,246,454 which has that "interactive networked video game" feature (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en), and AFAIK there isn't a "drink verification can"-style patent yet.
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4. WaxProlix ◴[] No.41890389[source]
Not sure if it's this one in question, or even from a real patent at all, but I think this is what GP was referencing; it made the rounds a few years back.

https://i.redd.it/wb7lhfporqj91.png (sorry for reddit pic link, poked around a bit and this was the one I could find)

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5. moffkalast ◴[] No.41891366[source]
A-ring-a-drink-a-Bing
6. account42 ◴[] No.41904018[source]
I suspect these are just rebadged generic soda cans but there is something oddly dystopian about a company drink.
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7. account42 ◴[] No.41904043{3}[source]
The verification can version specifically comes from 4chan: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
8. Randor ◴[] No.41921828{3}[source]
No, if I remember correctly it was a local beverage company. It wasn't unusual for Microsoft to back local businesses. I remember a very talented Indian software engineer that left Microsoft and purchased 3 "food trucks" and decided to serve food instead, true story. He parked his truck outside building 88 for a few years.