Too bad nothing in the world can fix that F'ed up airport. That place blows more than just air and jet fuel.

litbruin

I'll just return the item at the local Best Buy where I land.

Samifumi

*blink*

Why? Why god why? Why! Damn you! Damn you all to hell! You put a Best Buy in a box!

But will this thing tell you how much of a bad decision you are making when you decide to not purchase the (strike)extended warranty(/strike)performance service plan?

Xavoc

Yeah... those are the same machines that sell iPods and portable DVD players all over the place. Just has BB stickers.

TVGenius

@Mr.SithNinja: I SEE ISEE!

@GeekyNerdGuy: Yeah...when I fly or something I need something to make me giggle during the inflight movie :d

Carmen Sucks

Com'on brain!... I got something witty to say.

Stearns

@Carmen Sucks: There's sex shops in a few European airports. They're not so socially uptight about that stuff.

GeekyNerdGuy

oops forgot the @Carmen Sucks:

Mr.SithNinja

What about those phone charging machines? Who has time to pay and let their phone sit and charge?

GeekyNerdGuy

Now THAT would qualify as a "Best Buy "!

(see what I did there? comic GOLD!)

Mr.SithNinja

Great another useless machine for the airport. I wonder if they would place it next to the Apple one, or next to the CD/DVD vending machine.

zerito87

@Mr.SithNinja: Damn! I have to walk over 2 feet for the used undies? Where is the Promos when ya need em?

Buy 1 Vibrator Get 1 Pair of Used Undies for Free!

Carmen Sucks

How about a freshen up machine? Like cologne and deodorant or how about tooth brush and some tooth paste? That seems like something that should be on a vending machine.

daftrok

@Carmen Sucks: Japan. Right next to the used undies machine.

Mr.SithNinja

we have one of these at work, the other day, I got a second ipod for free. it was a great day. Thank god for the danglers.

Slap Bet

We have those exact machines at Houston Intercontinental except theyre apple machines.

snakepliskin

I hope the video screen has a rude employee that ignores me when I press it 100 times

throwinglittlepickles

What a wonderful day when we see a full grown man has crawled his way in to fetch a quick charge of his black berry...much like a small child in a arcade. Keep us posted on that.

doobiebros2two

Wheres the sextoy vending machine?

Carmen Sucks

How many quarters for an ipod?

The Real 31

GREAT!!!!!!
another thing NOT to spend money on at the airport!!!!

EspadaCero

@anothernord: Excellent idea!

ezman

@anothernord: What about no?

Carmen Sucks

What about a Newegg machine?

anothernord

@litbruin: If you go towards the foods court there are people in the airport who would be happy to show you what else the airport blows lots of.

Carmen Sucks

Delayed Flights + Best Buy Vending Machines= Money!!

Adisah

I wonder how many geek deaths this will lead to. Could potentially get 5 at a time as they team up to try and rock the machine for swag.

BaseVilliN

@Peteapple: They will have pre-emptively entered this information when you purchased using that credit card at their online or B&M locations so that when you swipe it will automatically enroll you without asking.

Xavoc

@snakepliskin: I need to fly out of Bush more often. Too broke... so Hobby it is. Would love to see these in Hobby....just to watch the Houston yuppies waste all their cash

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
--Cordfucious

Cordfucious the Hammered

This is about as handy as a live fishing bait vending machine.

MudmanDude

How are they going to sell extended warranties and magazine subscriptions through a vending machine? I might prefer this over the real store!

Peteapple

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has vending machines like that, only by Motorola and other companies. You can actually by a brand-new cellphone from a machine in Terminal C.

LoganAdams

@daftrok: DFW has those, too. You can even buy a hair dryer. That airport is Vending Machine Heaven.

infmom

WARNING: Anything you purchase from this vending machine can and will be seized by TSA.

Jesse in Japan

This reminds me of some malls selling ipods from vending machines.

gamecrazychris

@MudmanDude: they had those at a Wal Mart near me in Florida. i'd show my friends visiting from up north. they'd lose it. then think i was a backwoods hick

Norcross

are they going to be overpriced just like the 25cents chips cost 1 dollar!?!?!?!?

sleepyyazo

Hopefully the machine has a $100 Monster HDMI cable for sale. You never know when you might need one.

slaughter33

it looks like one of the Apple's machines too.

I always see them in Macy's. Weird place to buy iPod anyway. But hey, those rich kids will brag their rich parents for iPod. Not just one... but each color iPod.

vgart

"Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes!"

Blue387

They also have them in the Las Vegas McCarran airport. Saw it today.

dlarson90

do they work just like candy/chips ones? like with this little spiral wire deal that pushes out the item?

i am not certain i would want consumer electronics that fell from that top shelf.

you couldn't even return it if it got busted.

x23

I'll be connecting flights through DFW on the 23rd, so I'll have to seek it out and put some sort of malicious sticker on it. Perhaps a "Now Slower With More Bugs!" sticker would suffice.

LastVigilante

@Con Seannery: OK, looked closer at the picture, not the SAME machines, but similar. Less plastic crap all over the sides, slightly different stock.

Con Seannery

When I connected through DFW a few years back, I took my 5 hour delay to look around the terminal, and they had a few of these machines. Not BB branded, but the same machines, different stickers.

Con Seannery

Rats. No scissors to open the packaging. Triple sell.

heroineworshipper

LOL, I just looked in the pic closer, and saw what I think is the blue, linksys packaging. For those times you need a 4 port ethernet router. At the airport.

Nick1693

@GeekyNerdGuy:

...and they charge ungodly amounts for DVDs. Beate Uhse is the sex shop in Frankfurt FRA. €49 for "Sensational Janine". That came out in, what, 1972? Only people who buy in there are folks wearing dishdashas going back to places where you CAN'T buy porn.

@Carmen Sucks:

If the Yab Yum club had their way, AMS woulda had a very different type of 'blowing' goin' on.

@Con Seannery: No, they're the same. Just BB branded now. They've got 'em at IAH as well. Will shoot photos, I'm flying through in about 4 hours.

Buford T. Justice

I believe that the prices are going to be comparable to those in the stores. I think that this is a great idea. I noticed that you can even purchase a Nintendo DS and a couple of games, as well as a well rounded selection of iPods and headphones. I have a feeling that this is going to be a successful venture, which is good for everyone. Gadgets on demand, sign me up.

PandaWear

@Carmen Sucks: "Wheres the sextoy vending machine?"

If you're flexible, every vending machine is a sex toy.

Cupajo

@anothernord: that would be amazing. Except...not.

dandaman247

Minneapolis airport has had unbranded electronic vending machines for at least 2 years. Prices are typically MSRP. So an iPod will cost you the same as pretty much anywhere. I don't remember if the machine charges sales tax. While it might be good for a high-end accessory, most of the things won't help you much until you reach your destination.

ambrooks16

@LoganAdams: good thing it's just motorola, or i might have actually bought something last time i was there.

nealibob

yay fort worth!

EasyGT

@daftrok: Never stay at a cheap hotel? Vending machines have everything... Even cheap disposable swim suits if the hotel has a pool...

Evil_Snow_Man

yea DFW has had electronics vending machines for a while
last year i bought the myvu video goggles out of one while on a layover.
best thing i ever got from a vendingg machine

myneid

I think this is a pretty good idea...if you forget your headphones or want to get a new PSP game or something...you can just get it from the vending machine.

bobx3

@Blue387: haha>>> nice blazing saddles reference

txtanner88

@bobx3: I agree. The last time I was flying, I forgot my cell phone charger (actually, it was a new cell phone, and I didn't know until the third day of my trip that the phone with a USB jack won't actually charge from my computer's USB port (who knew?) So I picked up a travel charger at one of these kiosks. I also grabbed a pair of noise-canceling headphones - iPod earbuds can be painful at the volume necessary to compete with jet engines!

They're a great idea for the kind of stuff that's in them: chargers, PMP's, (although, what use is an iPod when you don't have a computer around to load stuff in to it?), pre-paid cell phones, and the like. The prices weren't over-inflated; they were pretty much MSRP. In fact, the gift shop nearby was selling headphones for more than the kiosk was charging.

TomXP411

Now the Best Buy machine can tell me nothing about the device I'm about to buy, just like the Best Buy employees.

ralfhutter

They also have these vending machines at the main terminal Mineappolis/St. Paul airport. I also spotted a Sony specific one on the C concourse.

Learethak

So now instead of paying 80% markup at the store, you get to pay 160% markup!

@anothernord: The Newegg machine would put the Best Buy machine out of business in about 10 minutes.

horspowr1001

I can see a DS, DS games, maybe i got to see a PSP, but I can't see Wii's neither PS3's. Why is that there aren't any of those???

KristenBal

Well that's pretty awesome

videoCWK

I wonder if the TSA gets kickbacks from it. The TSA Steals your junks then, if you really can't get by with a tech fix for 6 hours, you buy something from BB's junks bin.

hagrun