Library vending machine in China.
By Zach Hyman: There seems to be sufficient demand and interest in China for enabling people to check out books 24 hours a day. The not-so-cheap library vending machines have taken root across both urban and rural areas, each with a very different set of needs and each bearing vastly different reputations for serving their citizens. (Pics)
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Speedy Shop
Peter Fox, an electrical engineer, has developed the Speedy Shop, a large vending machine that sells a variety of items like toiletries, groceries like milk and eggs, kitchen items, pet food, and more.
Kandi Technologies car vending machine.
The company, Kandi Technologies is based in Hangzhou, China. They want to challenge the idea of traditional car ownership. In a country where air pollution is a serious environmental and health hazard, the company has created a giant vending machine that allows citizens to rent electric vehicles on an hourly basis. With a fleet of more than 100,000, Kandi already has plans to expand to other cities this year.
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Lettuce vending machine
After a nuclear holocaust has blocked out the sun or rampaging zombies have taken over our farmland there is finally a device that will guarantee we can still grow vegetables in the dark. This Japanese lettuce-growing vending machinet doesn’t require sunlight (it uses fluorescent bulbs) and it can churn out a surprising yield of lettuce: 60 heads a day, or over 20,000 a year.
Cupcake ATM
An ATM is set to open where your dough comes out freshly baked — with icing on top. Sprinkles, a gourmet cupcake chain with 10 locations nationally, is set to open its first 24-hour cupcake vending machine on March 9 at its original store in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Swap-O-Matic
Normal vending machines are so … boring. You put money in, candy comes out. But a new project aims to reconsider what a vending machine is and how we exchange good and services. (video)
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PepsiCo Inc will be launching the “social vending” machine that lets users buy each other drinks remotely. This is further proof that its decades-old rivalry with Coca-Cola Co is going ever-more high tech.
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Live crab vending machine
There’s a new vending machine in China that can get you your Shanghai Hairy Crab fix, no live attendant required. (Video)
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The 500-liter Self-Serve Wine Vendor.
It seems like we get everything from automated vending kiosks these days, from cash to DVDs to postal service to gasoline. The French have simply taken the next logical step. Putting a modern (and greener) spin on an old way of doing business, a French vendor has begun selling wine by volume from 500- and 1,000-liter vending pumps in French supermarkets. All customers need is a container.
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Swiss vending machines, like this one in Germany, will offer a
more discreet option for buying pregnancy tests or condoms.
Next time you shop for a chocolate bar at the train station’s vending machine, you may find a surprise.
Pregnancy tests will soon be offered on display among snacks and sodas across Switzerland, as the market leader company, Selecta, is equipping thousands of machines in train stations, offices and other public areas….
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A Japanese man walks right by the model in the dress.
If you like to blend in when it comes to fashion, then this is the skirt for you. A Japanese designer has unveiled a garment that doubles as a disguise, unfolding to look like the front of a vending machine. (Pics)
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Twenty-seven year old UK entrepreneur, Matt Horan, has started a company based off an ingenious idea. “After getting tired of giving my girlfriend a piggyback home every Saturday night, I had a ‘eureka’ moment,” says Rollasole founder Matt Horan of his clever invention. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Rollasole – Emergency Flats From a Vending Machine”
