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16
Aug 2010

Japan Touchscreen Vending Machine - 47-inch screen

[[posterous-content:vzxqmcabzodxuEslzolw]]Time for us to admit another entrant into the hall of unnecessary, but cool inventions. Installed at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station yesterday, this latest spin on the vending machine dispenses with those silly windows unto what you're buying and furnishes its user with a 47-inch touch panel from which to make his (or her) selection. An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances. And don't worry, it'll store your purchasing history too, so you can be freaked out by tailored ads every time you use it. 500 more of these WiMAX-equipped units are planned to be installed in and around Tokyo over the next two years, with operating company JR East expecting them to tally up 30 percent more sales than their analog brethren. More bling equals higher revenue? Sounds about right.

 

ckeck out the video below to see how it works.

 

New vending machine from JapanRailwayWaterBuisiness has installed in shinagawa station august 10 2010

It costs 5 times expensive than normal vending machine. But it has so many
amazing function

It has 47inch Touch screen in the front and video camra on the top of the machine.
When you stand in front of this vending machine, it automatically distinguish your
sex and age from your face to tell you the reccomeded drink for you.

In the video, When young lady stand before the vending machine,
the machine choosed tea for her diet and beauty
and when Businessman comes,it choosed coffee for break

Camra on this vending machine can identify persons age every ten years old.
Accuracy rate of identifying age is about 75 percent.

It uses high speed internet "wimax" to display realtime news and images changes
its design depend on the season or weather.

Also when Disaster like earthquake occurs, it gives drink free of charge to the Victims


All you need to do is to touch the drink you want and pay with the ICcard
it takes you less than 4seconds to get the drink.

 

Via Random-World (Ezura)

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27
Feb 2010

The Craziest Japanese Vending Machines!

Making an anchor of Sena's post about hamburger vending machines, I'm going to post here the craziest types of VMs I found through the internet. I got shocked when I read that Japan has over 5 million vending machines, and all of them have the most varied functions. Besides the most famous vending machines of candy, little toys and drinks, I found many weird products that can be purchased from them, like fish, rice, hot food and even underwears(!!!). Some brazilians would say: "Oh, it's such a laziness to have everything sold by machines. They just go there, press a button, put the cash in and they're done. Nothing more." Of course, I disagree. And that's why I'm gonna show some pictures of it. This is an Egg Vending Machine. Believe it or not, they say the eggs from there are farm fresh. What about giving a try?

   Similar to the Hot Coffee VMs we have, still really interesting. How about a hot ramen coming from this thing?
  May look like a washer, but this is a type of Toy Vending Machine. Cool huh?
  This is actually one of the most peculiar ones I've seen in this category. Looks really interesting to get your flowers like this. What intrigues me is if you get the flower by opening up the machine or if the flower is picked and thrown out like the drinks.
  If you wanna check more interesting vending machines I found a lot of them here. And after checking all this I respond to my fellow distrustful brazilians: "This isn't laziness, this is called technology." Comments are always welcomed. Cya.

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Posted by Eddie Li 
02
Nov 2009

The Hamburger Machine of Japan

“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Tokyo’s Katsushika ward that has a hamburger vending machine: The vending machine sells hamburgers for 100 yen each. Upon inserting a single 100 yen coin, a hamburger quickly comes out of the machine. However, a second try fails to produce a hamburger. It turns out that it can only hold a single hamburger and is operated manually by the man who runs the store. If you want more than one burger, you’ve got to go inside and order it. After his restaurant got featured on TV for its weird vending machine, the owner installed a second manual vending machine that sells 300 yen “royal” burgers (normal burgers with some added tomato and bacon). If you want check it out for yourself, you can find it here on google maps:
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Filed under  //   hamburger   katsushika   machine   Random Stuff   Society and Culture   tokyo   vending  
Posted by Eddie Li