Japan is a country that has the highest number of vending machines per person, where such vending machines do sell just about anything that you can think of, from food to electronics and the like. Using them is a no-brainer – drop the correct amount of yen, make your selection, and voila! It is time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. Well, Seventeen Ice, a brand that set up its first ice cream vending machine in Japan three decades ago, intends to celebrate that momentous date by introducing a new vending machine that will dispense the ice cream of your choice each time you dance for it.
Yes, dance for your ice cream, and not take the lazy way out by dropping a few coins. It is somewhat similar to the Dance Dance Revolution arcade game, where you will have to move your body to any of the 17 choreographed videos that the machine holds in order to start licking on your hard earned ice cream. This special machine will be placed for one day only on April 26th at the Shibuya Shop Plaza in Tokyo.
This is definitely one of the stranger vending machines that we have come across, especially the mode of its dispensation. Others too, have interesting content within – such as marijuana.
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Prevention is better than cure, so in an attempt to prevent the spread of disease, a Canadian non-profit has gone ahead to install the first crack pipe vending machines in Vancouver, Canada. These vending machines will allow drug users to purchase any number of Pyrex crack pipes that they require for a mere $0.25 each. This particular measure will hopefully reduce the rate of diseases that are spread through the use of drug paraphernalia which is shared among other drug users. A couple of these vending machines have been installed by the non-profit Portland Hotel Society’s Drug Users Resource Center (DURC) in Vancouver’s Washington Market.
How does having robots make your lunch for you sound? One thing is for sure though, you will eliminate some of the possible hygiene issues such as a worker who had just scratched the crack of his rear end before fulfilling your order, or perhaps found some bit of ‘irritants’ in his nose with his pinky prior. Well, Burritobox has jumped aboard the robotic bandwagon by launching the first burrito-making robots ever at a couple of locations on Santa Monica Boulevard, where they are within Mobile and 76 gas stations.
Self-service seems to be the way to go, and human waiters as well as bartenders do seem to be a dying breed in the process as part of the “collateral damage” whenever restaurants and eating establishments deploy food serving robots. Well, a new wine bar that will be opening in the New York area intends to do away with the classic bartender, but rather, would prefer to have their customers obtain their drinks from an automated kiosk using a smartcard.
