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Sapient's touchscreen Coke machine brings pop into the 21st century
Sapient's touchscreen Coke machine brings pop into the 21st century
Man, it just isn't fair -- we keep seeing all these kick-ass new vending machines , but when we want a can of Mr. Pibb or RC Cola we're stuck feeding quarters into something that looks like it was last serviced whenever Pac-Man Fever went storming up the charts. Then again, that's probably ...
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Touchscreen Coke Machine Hands-On
Tech Blog — ... movie theaters, and more in 2010 is Sapient's touchscreen soda vending machine. You won't have to wait that long to see how it works though, as MegaWhat has a video for you after the break. The screen is pretty much the entire front of the machine, and the interface is simple, but pretty cool nonetheless -- select your pop bottle, spin it around, take a look at the ingredients, and vend -- quasi-Minority Report-style. "Futuretistic," no? [via Engadget]

Sapeint's Coke Machine Longs for Your Touch [Vending Machines]
Gizmodo — ... Sapient's Coke machines are set to be available sometime soon in the 190+ malls owned by the Simon Property Group. However, the rest of the world may have to wait until 2010 until they could touch one of these babies. View the very first hands-on first impressions below. [Engadget Thanks Peter!] ...

Sapient's Coke Machine Longs for Your Touch [Vending Machines]
Gizmodo — ... Sapient's Coke machines are set to be available sometime soon in the 190+ malls owned by the Simon Property Group. However, the rest of the world may have to wait until 2010 until they could touch one of these babies. View the very first hands-on first impressions below. [Engadget Thanks Peter!] ...

Touchscreen coke; the epitome of cool
The Gadgets Weblog — Touchscreen coke; the epitome of cool An engadget reader sent in some seriously awesome pictures of some new touchsreen coke machines, allowing you to get up close and personal with your product before buying it! In a way they are genuinely useful, allowing you to view the ingredients and it's fat/sugar/etc makeup before buying. Can't wait till we can see these here!

Touch screen Coke vending machine by Sapient
Newlaunches.com — ... to check ingredients if you want and then click to collect. What is even cool is that this machine accepts cash AND plastic and that is good news to those who curse an innocent vending machine every time it gobbles one of their hard-earned pennies. [image] The product will be out in the US sooner than the rest of the world namely Europe and UK which will only get to have a 'touch' of comfort by next year. Coke_vending_machine_1.jpg Coke_vending_machine_2.jpg Source

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