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PepsiCo’s Interactive Vending Machine gifts beverages, play games
Vending Machines and colas have been going together for a while now. With PepsiCo’s newest attempt we have the Interactive Vending Machine on its way that will do more than just dispense your favorite drink. The machines come with a full touch-screen and allow you to enter any friend’s email ID and name. Following this,…
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iPhone case turns your device into a mini vending machine
We’ve seen a bunch of extremely unconventional iPhone cases before. None of those however have matched up with the likes of this out-of-the-box case we came across recently. Crafted for those who simply can’t get enough of vending machines, this case is designed for the iPhone 4 and the 4S. the case comes with a…
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Ultra smart Coke vending machine uses Intel Core i7 CPU
Till now, we knew that Intel’s i7 processors often resided in the finest graphics and gaming rigs. But then there’s never a ‘no’ from the innovation side of things. Take this cool Coca-Cola vending machine for instance. Intel showed off the utility of the powerful processor in a vending machine that could capture HD data…
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Art-O-Mat Vintage Cigarette Vending Machines now offer art
It’s not what we all think about, when it comes to classic smoking styles. There were sophisticated contraptions too and among them were the classic cigarette vending machines. Now, in the 21st century, the cigarettes are viewed as cancer sticks by the growing non-smoking populous. So, the machines are now lying dormant and consuming more…
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German student develops vending machine to dispense Bitcoins for Euros
A German art student Max Albrecht for his Bauhaus University’s summer exhibition has developed a Bitcoin Vending machine. You feed in a Euro coin and the machine vends out a printed receipt with a temporary EasyWallet.org link, following the link the recipient can transfer the cash to anyone anywhere with a Bitcoin wallet. The vending…
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Coca-Cola vending machine cools, power-free
Coca Cola have partnered with Fuji Electric Retail Systems and brought forth the A011 peak-shift vending machine. This amazing contraption can cool stuff for as long as 16 hours a day. These intelligent machines are programmed to shift their use of power for cooling, away from day time, to night time hours when power capacity…
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Twitter activated vending machine hands out free tea for tweets
What you see here is called the ‘BEV’, located at Cape Town’s Wembley Square it hands you free ice tea if you tweet to please her. The machine tell you what to tweet and once you are done tweeting from the mobile device it analyzes if the correct hash tag and then rewards you. Your…
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Lets Pizza, the pizza vending machines have come to the states
A vending machine that can even put the Japanese to shame. Brainchild of Italian Claudio Torghel it creates pizzas from scratch in 2.5 minutes. Each machine has ingredients to make 200 pizzas and they can be replinshed almost instantly as they are connected to the Internet. A hit in Europe these machines are all set…
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Vending machine integrating an OLED transparent interactive screen shows up at Computex
Well, it’s about time those good old vending machines got a dash of contemporary technology, and this machine that showed up at the recent Computex event has left us well-pleased. Sporting a see-through touch –screen, this vending machine is as interactive as ever, enabling users to touch the screen to make their purchases, review prices…
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Tourism British Columbia’s giant vending machine pops out bicycles, kayaks and surfboards!
Vending machines tossing out bags of chips, chocolates and cans of soda for spare change have turned into a pretty conventional affair. What took us by surprise recently however was this stupendous vending machine that we stumbled across at the Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. Installed by Tourism British Columbia, this massive vending machine…
