Red Box Video

So I was thinking the other day (I know, I know, dangerous…) and it struck me that Amazon could take the red box video idea and merge it with Mechanical Turk for something really revolutionary. If you live in North America, I’m sure you’re familiar with the red box video service that you can find at McDonald’s, Walmart, etc. They’re all over now. Basically, it’s a vending machine for DVDs.

The idea of kiosks got me thinking, though. What if, instead of a retail machine, it was something entirely different from Amazon – a Mechanical Turk kiosk – a Green Box. Picture this. Worker comes to McDonald’s, answers a few simple questions and gets to choose money or menu. If menu is picked, depending on how many tasks he completed, pictures of food and drink comes up. Maybe 5 tasks for a Big Mac. The details would have to be worked out. Read the full story