Web sites provide detailed instructions on how, for a few hundred dollars, car owners can swap the chip boxes themselves and turn their sedan into a speed demon.
The rain falls heavily on top of chip boxes, the remnants providing breakfast for many a hungry bird.
There are trenches of cans and empty chip boxes stacked in the street, groups of tourists sitting on the footpath among them.
The reptiles are distributed through international mail centres and sold most likely to private zoos and collectors for thousands of dollars apiece. "Some reptiles were found stuffed in socks within cereal and chip boxes, others had their legs taped together," an Australian Border Force report reads.
"Second: I still remember the day when I saw some kids holding a BlackBerry in one hand and carrying the chicken and chips box in another on the street.
In the case of Chinese electronics companies Rock Chips and Box Chips the answer has been simple – hitch a ride on Android.
This means that the traditional IC players now face stiff competition from China, with Rock Chips and Box Chips already selling millions and another local firm, Actions, about to enter the fray.
This model of quality firmware partnered with lower-cost, mid-quality hardware, enables companies like Rock Chips and Box Chips to make millions of unit sales, and to win over not only the traditional "value" customer, but also the more discerning customers, domestically and overseas.
Their photos top the plastic-clipped racks of chips, boxes of bubble gum and candy bars and the cash register.
Tagged with RFID chips, boxes and cases of merchandise will automatically transmit information from embedded RFID chips to "readers" throughout the distribution process.
