Vending Machines of Japan
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"Vending Machines of Japan"
"Vending Machines of Japan"
05/06/2004 09:52 PM"PhotoMann Travel Photography - Images
of Vending Machines In Japan"
"PhotoMann Travel Photography - Images
of Vending Machines In Japan"
04/25/2004 08:33 PMam3 Anime Vending Machines
am3 Anime Vending Machines
07/08/2004 08:44 AM
Thanks to Tyler
and Mohammed and everybody else that sent in pictures of these am3
Anime Vending machines for the Advance Movie player. I'm fairly sure
that eh one of the left (the Pokemon-branded one) is the newer model,
while the one on the right is the older, less full-featured model that
has been out for a while. I love that in an all-digital machine,
they've somehow still found it necessary to incorporate a giant crank
dial on the front.
Look - am3?GBA [Watch.Impress]
Look - Product
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Related
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines
for Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
Japanese vending-machines
Japanese vending-machines
05/05/2004 12:52 PM
Great page with photos and notes on vending machines that can be found
in and around Tokyo.
Link
(
Thanks, Infospigot!)
'Remove' school vending machines
'Remove' school vending machines
04/22/2004 06:47 PMMachines selling crisps and fizzy drinks should be taken out of
schools, parents say.
Vending Machines Making Room for Health
(AP)
Vending Machines Making Room for Health
(AP)
08/07/2004 01:37 PMAP - The typical vending machine fare consists of chocolate bars and
potato chips, leaving few options for people seeking low-calorie or
low-salt snacks.
French remove junk food vending machines
French remove junk food vending machines
07/30/2004 03:54 PMam3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines for
Game Boy Advance
am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines for
Game Boy Advance
07/07/2004 12:46 PM
Japanese company am3 has set
up anime vending machines in 20 locations around the country in test
program to sell content for its moderately succesful 'Advance Movie'
peripheral for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. Different from the Game Boy Advance Video
cartridges available here, the Advance Movie uses a rewriteable Smart
Media card, which consumers can fill up with movies that cost between
100 (~$1) and 400 yen(~$4), depending on their content (and presumably
length). So far all the titles are anime, but there's nothing stopping
other types of programs to be sold. In fact, am3 is already planning
to sell data for four other peripherals it sells; Advance Comic, for
manga viewing; Advance Picture, for images; Advance Music, for
durrrrr; and Advance Navi, for maps.
Why they can't just have one peripheral that does all those things,
I don't know. Oh, and if any of our Japanese readers can snap a pic of
the vending machines and send it to us, that'd be dandy.
Re
ad - GBA movie vending machine to hit Japan [Gamespot]
Related
Gutting the Pocket Cinema Player
for the Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of
Japanese Vending Machines
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of
Japanese Vending Machines
04/25/2004 09:41 AMPhotos of Japanese vending machines .. Automaatteja Japanista ..
Automaatteja .. everywhere .. vending ..
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photomann.com/japan/machines
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McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans
McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans
11/13/2003 02:55 PMAlmost exactly a year ago we wrote about how
giant
vending machines were coming to the US. These were vending
machines the size of small shops, that could pick from over 200 items
to drop into your hand at your convenience - without having to deal
with (gasp!) a human checkout person. It turns out that many of these
machines were actually being run by McDonald's who has now decided
that
the US market just
isn't ready for giant vending machines, which are being shut down.
Perhaps there were complaints from teenaged kids who were scared that
the vending machines were going to take away their only hope for a
job.
Vend Audit Controls Announces VendCheck
Pilot for Vending Machines in
Philadelphia Public Schools
Vend Audit Controls Announces VendCheck
Pilot for Vending Machines in
Philadelphia Public Schools
08/05/2004 03:40 AMVend Audit Controls Systems Now In Place In Three Major School
Districts [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
06/14/2004 03:33 AMIt appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important
than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled
out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting
machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling
machines. Perhaps that's because
electronic gambling
machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting
machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which
gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than
electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that
the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic
gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for
any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines.
Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to
make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had
convict
ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you
wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting
machines as well.
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004
03/27/2005 05:50 AMZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines
12/04/2003 01:10 PMSlashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET
A Vending Machine for Voter Data
A Vending Machine for Voter Data
12/11/2003 06:15 AMAristotle International sells lists online containing personal facts
about voters to anybody who cares to plunk down the money. A Wired
News special report by Kim Zetter.
eBayer fires salvo at PS2-vending mum
eBayer fires salvo at PS2-vending mum
06/24/2004 04:50 AMDistributing clue to parent
Game Boy Advance music vending machine
Game Boy Advance music vending machine
07/09/2004 05:19 AM
This beast is a music vending machine that sells tunes to play in your
Game Boy Advance movie player. Gizmodo notes the deliciously
superfluous giant mechanical dial on the front.
Link
Virtual Vending Machine for Widgets
launches
Virtual Vending Machine for Widgets
launches
06/17/2005 03:04 PMThe Widget Machine was launched today, a new site dedicated to
Dashboard widgets -- mini applications featured in Mac OS X Tiger...
High-tech vending firm hits jackpot
deals, moves from 'stealth'
High-tech vending firm hits jackpot
deals, moves from 'stealth'
03/28/2005 03:23 AMSan Jose Business Journal Mar 28 2005 7:58AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Nissho
Iwai-Nichimen, Casio
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Nissho
Iwai-Nichimen, Casio
05/11/2004 10:16 PMForbes May 12 2004 2:25AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Vodafone Holdings,
Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo Japan
Japan Hot Stocks-Vodafone Holdings,
Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo Japan
02/17/2004 11:53 PMForbes Feb 18 2004 4:22AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Bridgestone, Yahoo
Japan, Nissho Iwai-Nichimen
Japan Hot Stocks-Bridgestone, Yahoo
Japan, Nissho Iwai-Nichimen
05/11/2004 10:16 PMForbes May 12 2004 2:25AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo
Japan, Alps, NTT DoCoMo
Japan Hot Stocks-Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo
Japan, Alps, NTT DoCoMo
02/17/2004 09:19 PMForbes Feb 18 2004 1:52AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Mitsubishi
Motors, Toshiba, UFJ
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Mitsubishi
Motors, Toshiba, UFJ
04/25/2004 10:03 PMForbes Apr 26 2004 2:40AM GMT
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Alps, NTT
DoCoMo
Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Alps, NTT
DoCoMo
02/17/2004 09:06 PMForbes Feb 18 2004 1:23AM GMT
Mean machines
Mean machines
07/29/2004 11:32 AMWith "I, Robot," Hollywood has returned to Asimov's three laws to keep
robots in their place. But what would it really take to stop robots
from hurting humans?
Japan.com - Technology - Magnetic Fan in
Japan - Japanese Magnetic Fan
Japan.com - Technology - Magnetic Fan in
Japan - Japanese Magnetic Fan
04/17/2004 04:38 PMThe Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine: Kohei Minato and the Japan
Magnetic Fan Company .. Flash: Japan Saves the world with magnets!
Japanese magnets! .. has created a new kind of motor .. this article
on Japan.com .. uses 80% less
power
japan.com/technology/index.php
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How many Google machines
How many Google machines
05/03/2004 02:23 AMGoogle's bajillion servers. Everywhere I've worked, they never have
enough servers. Apart from Time Out, I guess. They had enough. Oh yeah
.. How many systems does Google have? ..
Quote
tnl.net/blog/entry/How_many_Google_machines
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When machines breed
When machines breed
08/12/2004 09:23 AMEvolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the
job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it.
Better Answering Machines
Better Answering Machines
12/05/2003 02:11 AMMy old faithful answering machine is a dinosaur and I had to re-record
my message on it this morning for...
Segways May Become War Machines
Segways May Become War Machines
12/02/2003 06:32 AMA Pentagon program drafts inventor Dean Kamen's self-balancing
scooters, hoping to create an army of battlefield helpers capable of
transporting injured troops and hauling soldiers' gear.
Rise of the Machines
Rise of the Machines
04/09/2004 04:01 PMConn Hallinan, an "analyst" for Foreign Policy in Focus, a
liberal/left-wing
think tank, has written a strange agitprop
piece on military robotics. In it he explains that the DARPA Grand
Challenge and military robots in general are a "coldly calculated"
conservative plot masterminded by Bush, a "powerful circle of arms
manufactures", and an "empire-minded group of politicians" to develop
"Frankenstein
killing machines" that target civilians. His article also appears
in the Asia Times
online with an amusing illustration that adds to the humor.
Inferior machines
Inferior machines
11/12/2003 10:24 PM
Les
Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of
himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote
this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess
that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I
would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly
inferior machine.
Bah. In 1983, I was working on a
3033. (16 MB RAM, 4.7
MIPs).
Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a
Palm Pilot Tungsten W...
"How many Google machines"
"How many Google machines"
05/03/2004 09:24 AMHow Many Google Machines, Really?
How Many Google Machines, Really?
05/02/2004 12:51 PMRage Against the Machines
Rage Against the Machines
12/25/2004 04:45 PMSlashdot Dec 24 2004 7:37PM GMT
Speaking machines!
Speaking machines!
01/04/2004 01:14 PM A brief
history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and
sound samples!
Sex Machines At Work
Sex Machines At Work
08/29/2004 03:57 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Online photo gallery with
portraits of garage-geek inventors of "sex machines" -- and the people
who use them -- shot by photographer Timothy Archibold. I hatehatehate
the site's 1.5MB gorilla Flash interface, and I hate that I can't copy
and paste some of the project notes for you here in text. But the
images and the subject matter they detail (online communities that
connect people who imagine, build, and use these machines) are
fascinating. At left: "Scott at his kitchen table, Sex Machines
Unlimited."
Link
(NSFW). (
Thanks, alfie)
Getting Misty Over Old Machines
Getting Misty Over Old Machines
08/19/2004 03:21 PMYou ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just
can't throw away?
Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could
pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was
the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) broke the
$1,000 barrier.
I still remember the doors opening on Sunday mornings to a throng
people nearly drooling at the prospect of a system for $999. You used
to have to hold up the weekly flier, point to a package, and say,
"Everyone who wants this, go over there, and, " — pointing at a
different one — "everyone who wants this, come over here." It
was crazy.
Anyway, sometime during that job, someone returned a Compaq
Presario 4508 mini-tower, and I persuaded the inventory guy to let me
buy it as-is for $200. The box said it was 200 MHz, but BIOS told me
233. It had 24MB of RAM, but only 1MB of video memory, so I dropped
$20 on a used 4MB video card, taking up one of the two PCI slots in
the process. The hard drive was a monstrous 4.3GB.
That computer served me well for almost four years. I managed to
cram 48MB of memory in it — the most it would take (the case
design was so poor that adding memory was a 30-minute operation). It
ran Windows 95 for all those years until I got a new machine (a 1 GHz
Athlon, which I still use today) and I put Linux on it briefly. I
remember installing Office 2000, then having to uninstall it because
it was just too slow.
About three years ago, I passed the computer on to my
mother-in-law. She's one of those folks who does two things: surfs
the Web and sends email. In that capacity, the little machine has
worked great, until now.
I think it's finally started to die. The hard drive cycles
endlessly, and every once in a while it reboots to Safe Mode, a
phenomenon I can only attribute to some obscure bit of hardware going
to pieces so that it doesn't respond correctly on reboot. I have it
running Windows 98 SE, stripped down to virtually nothing. Everything
that can be removed has been, but it's still using 10MB more memory
than it has immediately after rebooting.
I'm going to start looking for another machine for my
mother-in-law, but I just can't bear to throw the old Presario away.
It's chugged along for seven years now, and enabled the sending and
receiving of countless baby pictures. I'm a little sentimental about
the old bird, and I think I'll just store it away in the basement for
a while in the hopes that my wife never finds it and sells it at a
garage sale one day.
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µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
12/17/2004 06:31 PMIntelligent wireless TCP/IP modems, which support application
features including E-mail, FTP and automated I/O & GPS location
reporting. - Part of a Box-to-Module-to-License design philosophy
offering rapid time to market. - Eases integration of legacy equipment
with Central Management applications. [PRWEB Nov 28, 2004]
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
08/04/2004 10:03 PMA Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal
Turing Machine
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Expobar Brewtus Double Boiler Machine
Expobar Brewtus Double Boiler Machine
12/22/2004 01:36 AM
Lindsey sent
me the heads up about this new Expobar Brewtus pro-sumer espresso
machine and said it was the hot new mechano-squirter that coffee geeks
are all hot for. I knew that meant I had to call in the big coffee
guns: my man Tonx, barista to the
stars. Here's what he had to say about this new $1,500 machine (after
the shonen jump).
Looks like a dual boiler machine from a good manufacturer,
built to the specs of one of the more respected pro-sumer machine
dealers, PID control for superb temperature stability... it looks like
a winner. The dual boiler means you have a separate boiler for shots
and steaming milk rather than a single boiler that must move
temperature dramatically for multiple functions. A lot of home
espresso geeks have hacked PID controllers onto cheaper machines with
good results. But assuming there are no chronic performance bugs (a
reasonably big if on a new product), this is a very attractive bang
for the buck. I'd urge folks to watch the reviews roll in on coffee
geek for awhile before making a plunge.
In short - proper espresso requires water delivered with consistent
and high pressure (about 9 bars or better) at a consistent and stable
temp. Most consumer level "espresso" machines deliver overhot water
at weak pressure and fail to deliver the real emulsion of oils and
colloids that is espresso. Reasonable pro-sumer machines start around
$500 and climb around $10k for the good professional machines. The
pricetag of having real espresso at home is going to be approaching
the ballpark of this machine.
And don't get me started on grinders...
I guess this means my cowboy coffee isn't going to cut it
anymore.
Expobar
Brewtus Double Boiler Machine [WholeLatteLove]
Coke Machine Hacks
Coke Machine Hacks
12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Xeni Jardin:
HOWTO doc on hacking Coke vending machines by way of the drink
selection buttons on the front display.
Link (
Thanks, Jason
Sutton).
Mirror one,
Mirror two, and
Google
cache (
Thanks, Dan, Jackson Baker and Scott M.)
Update:: Reader Chris Vincent says,
Just thought I'd point out that most of the content on those sites
(including the Coke machine article) is verbatim from the
Anarchist's Cookbook, a legendary collaborative document that
can be found all over the internet. Everything from social
engineering to fun explosives to (obviously) Coke machine hacks can be
found there.
Another interesting bit of information, this time about Pepsi machines
(not from the cookbook, just something I found out about last week):
New Pepsi machines have a "code", a special sequence in which you
can push the buttons on the face of the machine, which causes the LED
screen to report the number of cans sold and the total cash value.
I'm not sure what that code is, and it may be configurable on a
per-machine basis. I'm sure somebody out there can shed more light on
it than me.
Japanese pachinko machine maker to buy
stake in Sega
Japanese pachinko machine maker to buy
stake in Sega
12/08/2003 03:35 PMSiliconValley.com Dec 8 2003 1:20PM ET
302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever
302 Redirect Hack Fastly Becoming Most
Infamous SE Listings Hack Ever
03/14/2005 05:10 PMThis subject just will not die until the search engines address it.
"Google and Yahoo are now working to perfect ways to determine when to
treat a 302 like a Moved-Temporarily redirect, and when to treat it
like an exit-tracker. It's far from a simple problem, so it's going to
take some time."
Welcome To The Machine
Welcome To The Machine
09/06/2004 06:07 PMTechWeb Sep 6 2004 9:38PM GMT
The Machine Age PC
The Machine Age PC
08/27/2004 02:08 PMThe Machine Age
The Machine Age
08/27/2004 02:09 PMSFX Machine RT 1.03
SFX Machine RT 1.03
12/02/2003 10:19 PMReal-time audio multi-effects plug-in with hundreds of effects.
Inside the machine
Inside the machine
07/27/2004 08:04 PMI have to say the upside of having bloggers at the
DNC is that I've learned the ropes of how these conventions go,
through their eyes. I didn't know about speech embargoes until a few
people posted about speeches before they happened.
While watching Fox news for a few minutes tonight (to see O'Reilly
take on Michael Moore), I noticed they don't show speeches in their
entirety like the other networks, but simply cut to certain sections.
Knowing about these embargoes, it becomes clear why they choose to cut
away to live, in-progress speeches -- they know exactly what's coming
up and they can highlight the most offending sections, and just those
sections, out of context from the rest of the speech.
Raging Against The Machine
Raging Against The Machine
01/28/2004 09:15 AMIn its '1984' commercial, Apple suggested that its computers would
smash Big Brother. But technology gave him more control. By Theodore
Roszak (Los Angeles Times via MyAppleMenu)
Download machine 0.20
Download machine 0.20
04/10/2004 03:18 PMA noninteractive, nongraphical, pure Java batch file downloader.
Vending Machines of Japan
