Pepsi starts testing green vending machines

Soft drink giant PepsiCo is starting to test their lastest environmental idea: green vending machines. These will hopefully reduce carbon footprints and electric bills. In Washington DC, 30 machines have been set up for testing, and Pepsi hopes to release them worldwide in...

A vending machine that makes hot pizza upon request

Would you buy 'fresh' pizza from a vending machine? Well a man who was successful selling pasta in California, now wants to return to Italy and start up a vending machine business that will cook pizza with all fresh...

Coming soon: 'wallet phones' from Japan

"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...

Teachers behind bottle ban in School District 42

Water bottles may be banned from all school vending machines in School District 42 (Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows) in order to help alleviate their impact on the environment. Water must be available to students in...

UK Moves to Ban Cigarette Machines as WHO Calls for Tobacco Advert Ban

When I first moved to the UK, I saw reps for Silk Cut handing out free cigarettes in Paddington station. This is before "WTF" was in the common parlance, but I was thinking its pre-web equivalent. That practice...

Mexican donkey sent to jail

Mexico officers sent the ass to jail.  They sent a donkey to jail after it bit and kicked two men.  The donkey will be kept there until the owner pays the injured men’s medical bills. "A donkey is...

Japan to start counting crow`s feet

Before you will be able to get any cigarettes out of the vending machines in Japan, you better make sure you have plenty of wrinkles, crow`s feet, and skin sags so that the machine can tell if you are old enough...

Ohio judge to decide man's fate for sharing snack cake

"McARTHUR, Ohio (Map, News) - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in...

LA's weed vending machines

The SFist thought they would be to first to come up with automatic marijuana vending machines, but I'm surprised our very own lotusland didn't beat either of these cities to the punch."Yes, Mary Jane is now...

US $5 bill turns purple

The US is finally smartening up and taking a page from Canada's currency playbook. Colourful money is not only pretty, it makes for lightning fast transactions and adds valuable seconds to our busy lives. (Insert...

Get Less With The “Get More” Mobile Network :: Symblogogy

"Ever wonder why consumer societies in other countries like Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and etc. are able to use their cellphone for more than … well, email?"

Vending Machine Videos at VideoSelf

"I am a sucker for a good old fashioned video store. I like to browse and wander and then walk out with far more movies than I had planned. The art of the find is half of the fun. Aside from Classic Video and maybe a handful of others, the state of video rental places in...

Motorola unveils phone vending machines

"Consumers needing a cell phone or accessories on the run have a new option now that Motorola Inc. has rolled out a series of what the company calls "robotic stores.""

Hungry? 10 Jobs That Let You Sample Food

"Most of us sample plenty of food during our work weeks -- leftover pasta from working lunches, mousse cakes from baby showers, and fistfuls of miniature candy bars from a co-worker's candy jar. While some of us are content with eating bags and bags of chips, these 10 jobs...

Symblogogy: Lab Nets Learning Experience - Biometric COKE

"College is such a fun time. Only in the lab would someone think up a way to use one of the more difficult and complex approaches to "Speedpassing" a soda.This spring, A group of grad students at the University of...

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