Universal Studios is chipping their soda cups to limit refills
by Cory Doctorow from on (#4ATN3)
A room at a Universal Studios Florida hotel tonight will cost you $197-$536 (plus admission tickets to the park), but make sure that you do all your soda drinking in one compact session, because Universal has deployed the creepily named Validfill RFID system, which limits your self-service (that is, you do the labor) soda refills to two hours after purchase, and after the time window expires, "you are denied soda by a robot voice."
It's hard to be on any kind of resort/theme park vacation and not feel totally nickle and dimed but this Universal Studios hotel has chipped their paper soda fountain cups and a clock starts on the first fill and you have two hours before you are denied soda by a robot voice.
- Daniel Danger (@tinymediaempire) March 5, 2019
(via Super Punch)