There’s the potential for the next generation of touchscreen LCD vending machines to be an all out assault on our senses. So here’s hoping more companies More »
It’s one of the most popular online t-shirt stores, but just in time for the start of the Christmas shopping rush Threadless is testing a small number of vending machines throughout its hometown of Chicago. More »
Maybe I’m just paranoid, but when I see a vending machine designed to easily duplicate keys, my immediate thought isn’t, “Wow, that’s convenient!” It’s: “Wow, what an easy way to secretly duplicate someone’s key without being seen doing it!” More »
Do you live in Paris and frequently stumble out of bars at 2AM with a craving for a bite of baguette? If so, you’ll be totally psyched to learn that French baker Jean-Louis Hecht recently installed two bread-dispensing vending machines outside his boulangeries. More »
Because it’s not a chicken vending machine but an egg vending machine! Live! Fresh! Good! Um, not exactly. The egg vending machine was an installation made by NOAH (think PETA but German) to show the dark side of how farms treat their chickens. More »
The clincher in Pepsi’s new “social” vending machine platform is the ability to gift Pepsi beverages – and retrieve your gifted beverages – which is kind of awesome, putting vending machines at the same level of 2000s-era commerce as other electronic stores, say, iTunes or Amazon. More »
Whoever said Japan had a monopoly on crazy vending machines? Sure they’ve got live crabs and bananas. But can they match the awesome power of France’s baguette dispensers? More »
