Vending machines are joining The Internet of Things. And these are hardly traditional snack vending machines, since they come loaded with networked and interactive capabilities. These include targeted ...

Clearly one of the places that Japan has surpassed the US in the tech world is in the hotly contested vending machine market. In Japan, vending machines are high tech with touchscreens and they hand ...

Check your office vending machine tomorrow morning. If there’s a small, black antenna on top of it, your company’s snacking habits have probably been generating data that helps business owners like ...

To be in the game these days, companies are all going social. From Google's many attempts and continued attempts in the online social platform realm to now Pepsi applying the social model to their ...

Vengo, a six-year-old, Bethpage, New York-based startup that makes touchscreen vending machines for a wide variety of uses and clients, has raised $7 million in new equity funding led by Arcade Beauty ...

Vending machines, they aren’t the most exciting things in the world are they? Most machines require you to peer in through the glass front, work out what you want to consume and then enter enough ...

Vending machines in neon-splashed Tokyo have electronic eyes that evaluate customers’ skin and wrinkles to determine whether they are old enough to buy tobacco. In bathrooms at upscale Canadian bars, ...

Even though we’re practically sitting on Star Trek technology thanks to tablets, e-readers, and smartphones, other parts of everyday life still need to catch up. Oddly enough, vending machines may not ...

Everything is more fun when enacted as a video game. Even a a new touchscreen vending machine that debuted yesterday in Tokyo that’s “causing quite a stir,” writes Sam Dunne of Core77, “as, one-by-one ...

If you needed more proof that touchscreens are becoming ubiquitous, look at these new vending machines Coca Cola is planning to set up in all over Japan by year-end. They feature 46-inch LCD touch ...

The touchscreen has given modern computing a lot of its feeling and spirit. The touchscreen does not belong in vending machines. Fake food and real samples, tantalizingly top-lit and warmed in an ...