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Monday May 9, 2005 8:11 am
iPod Vending Machine
Airports sure know how to cater to their visitors, don’t they? It seems that in Atlanta, you have the opportunity to be overcharged for more than just the food. Check out the Zoom Shop vending machine. Instead of your favorite candy treat, you will find batteries, phone cards, and - get this - iPods housed inside the glass case. It seems that iPod mini’s and shuffles are the flavor of the day. Let’s get to work on developing a music-type vending machine with a dockable interface.
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This is the coolest damn thing I’ve ever seen. An iPod Vending Machine! Duh, they’ll be overpriced and stuff… but having lived in Japan and missing the convenience of vending machines selling ANYTHING YOU MIGHT NEED, I’m glad to see machines selling more than just soda and candy here in the USA. Especially if they’re vending a tasty crop of iPods!
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Its on the top level…
Isn’t there a chance of like….breaking?
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Its on the top, but I don’t think it falls down like candy.
That would be pretty dumb…just like your question.
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It probably has a “robotic arm” type thing that after you put in your selection on the screen, it moves in a horizantal direction first to the column, then up vertically to the row, grabs the item, follows it previous “footsteps”, and brings it to the box underneath the screen. No ipod breaking here!
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“Its on the top, but I don’t think it falls down like candy.
That would be pretty dumb…just like your question. “
Thanks
Well the reason I asked was cause I was looking at it and didn’t SEE an arm or anything….or a bar that goes across that the arm slides on(like any one ive SEEN with an arm
Theres nothing visible that looks like it would bring it down
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well, when it’s in the “sleep” mode, you can’t see it because it stores away behind the machine artwork on the right side and the bottom of the machine. If it was always visible, you wouldn’t be able to see some of the selections in the machine.
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I hope the machine can handle ipod replacements if its broken or doesnt work…unless the machine wants to deal with my 2 lawyers, Mr. Easton and Mr. Louisville who always win my case 100%.
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they already have that dockable thing . I went to a bullmoose in NH and they ahve a dockable searchable database. you can hook up your i pod and stuff. Ontop of that you can buy the songs right there with your creditcard.
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In the close up theres walls on the side….then it looks too thin on the left side for the arm to go in…...the right half of the machine might be able to go farther right….behind the screen…but on the left one theres no visible place for it to go….maybe up…..and have all the machinery for moving the arm at the top…thats the only place i can think of it hiding
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even if it drops, isn’t it pretty safely packaged anyways? I mean, these same boxes go through the crappy post offices and such everyday and we usually get them in perfect shape.
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