oh thats Novel….
July 27th, 2007 by HeywoodWas recently in Edinburgh Airport in Scotland and saw this little item by the gate. This joins the list of ever growing stuff you can procure from a vending machine. Some useful and some not, some just plain wrong (these are the best).
Of course Japan rules the roost when it comes to vending machines, small list of available and weird vending machines:
- Eggs
- Umbrellas
- Hot Ramen
- Phone charger station
- Hot Popcorn
- Fishing supplies
- Fried food
- Liquor
- Porn (nice!)
- Used Panties
- Rhinoceros Beetles
- More including the ones listed above at http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/
July 30th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’ve been pleased to note the recent proliferation of ice cream vending machines in odd places; “Why yes I DO need a caramel drumstick between teaching Intro to Cultural Anthropology and Peoples of Europe. How thoughtful of you to have installed an ice cream machine on the 5th floor of an obscure building on a random campus of the CSU system!”
July 30th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Yeah, we have an ice cream machine in some random stairwell here at Columbia Business School– it’s great when I want a strawberry shortcake good humor bar!
And at airports I’ve seen refrigerated vending machines that sell flowers– i think this is ingenious!