Vending machines didn’t always just sling soda and smokes. Did you know the automated peddlers have been around for about two thousand years? In fact, the very first vending machine was invented by first-century mathematician Hero of Alexandria to dispense holy water using a series of valves, pulleys, and weights. And they’ve been stuffed with just about anything you can imagine since.
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You know when there’s a business idea that is just so simple, and
fantastic, and obvious you wonder how we’ve existed on this planet
without someone creating it before? Well, one of those ideas has
surfaced, it has to do with key-cutting, and it is so simple it is
genius.
Vending machines are awesome, in fact, people love to read about them
more than any other business idea or technological device (according to a
non-statistical, and completely subjective survey conducted by yours
truly). Now Eatwave Vending Machine is shaking up everything we thought
we could expect out of a vending machine. Vending machines have offered
hot food for a while, but not like this.
You could use measuring tape to steal a can of soda from a vending machine but if you’re a genius, why not just invent a freaking robot to do the dirty work for you? This guy did just that. He inserts his robot inside the vending machine and controls it to grab as many sodas as possible. Awesome. More »
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP),
the makers of the iconic American soda, has recently become the
second-largest food and beverage corporation in the world. An abundance of
innovations helped to make PepsiCo the industry giant that it is today. The Sultan
of Soft Drinks hasn’t stopped striving to discover innovative start-ups
across several areas to throw their support behind, leading to the
creation of PepsiCo10.
If you’re ever thirsty for delicious carbonated sugar syrup and find yourself without any cash or quarters, maybe you’ll be wise enough to carry around a measuring tape with you. Turns out, the wild minds of Russia have developed a slick vending machine hack that’ll give you free sodas. And it only takes just a little bit of force. Here’s how they do it. More »
Occasionally you’ll luck out and climb into a taxi cab with such amenities as free tissues, discarded newspapers, or all the tourist pamphlets you can carry. But if you find yourself in New Orleans, you might end up in one of the 250 vehicles in the Orleans Carriage Cab fleet that now feature soda-dispensing vending machines. More »
Philadelphia’s Drexel University has introduced a 24 hour vending machine that dispenses MacBooks instead of sugar water and snacks. But instead of selling the laptops to staff and students, the kiosk lends them out free of charge—with proper ID—for five-hour periods. More »
When it comes to food and drink from a vending machine (there are vending machines that cough up iPods and other kinds of consumer electronics, but that is a different story for another day), these tend to be more on the budget-friendly side. Well, perhaps it is time to kick things up a notch – and thanks to the efforts of gourmet food supplier, Beverly Hills Caviar, they managed to install a set of vending machines in certain Los Angeles malls which will be able to serve up fresh caviar, escargot, and other kinds of exotic foodstuff. Needless to say, the name Beverly Hills itself smells of bling, so it is not unexpected to find some of the goods in these freshly minted vending machines to cost you as much as $500.
Just to get a little bit of context, Beverly Hills Caviar is a business that delivers luxury cuisine around the world, where they operate one by-appointment-only specialty store, so the move to use a vending machine in order to distribute expensive food within a mall does not seem to be in character with such a company at all. Well, Beverly Hills Caviar thinks otherwise, as they see such vending machines to be the ideal tool to make its products far more accessible to its usual range of clients in addition to the general public.
These vending machines will come with more than 24 varieties of caviar which is carefully sourced from around the world, where they will range from the $30/oz American Black Caviar to the Imperial River Beluga, which will cost you a wallet burning $500 per ounce. Not only that, you can also pick from a slew of other gourmet foods and cooking ingredients, where among them include escargot, black truffles, white truffle oil, blinis, bottarga, and premium salts. Heck, there is even a vegan type of caviar which is made up of seaweed and a red salmon caviar which was carefully made just for our four legged friends – dogs and cats. Just to make sure you do not end up eating fine caviar with a plastic fork, the machine does dispense mother of pearl spoons and dishes – at a fine price too, of course.
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[ Beverly Hills Caviar installs high end vending machines copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Ever found yourself in the mood for some caviar but didn’t have quite enough time to stop off for some on the way to your private jet for a trip to your own personal island? Me neither, but apparently someone has, because they invented the caviar vending machine. More »
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