vending machine

Being from Minnesota and having stood in lines at the DMV, I couldn't believe my eyes.  While visiting my sister who lives in the state of Wisconsin I ran across the Wisconsin E-Z Tab machine at a grocery store.  Wait, what....a vending machine that gives you your license tabs?  Wow, that makes life easier doesn't it?  Now you can put it on your grocery list:  milk, eggs, sugar and tabs for your v

Like most places, our radio station has a break room where we can have a quick snack.  Unlike most places, our vending machine is a vintage old school model.  I visit this crazy machine a few times a week, but I never realized that it was magical.  Until now.

I can think of more difficult things to dispense from a vending machine!  Why on earth would you pick something as easy as mashed potatoes and gravy?  At a 7-11 besides, maybe that's why the potatoes look a little like a slurpee.  I'd like to see a General Tso Chicken and fried rice vending machine, now THAT would be technology at it's finest!  What would YOU like to see "vendenized", if

Nothing is worse than putting your $1.25 in the vending machine anticipating that piece of soft, strawberry flavored licorice.  You hear the bag slide out, reach down, rip open the bag....AND, ROCK HARD!  Bummer!  So, when I heard that they have a new vending machine that makes and distributes hot pizza within 90 seconds and in a variety of flavors...I'm leery.  What do you think?