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A Pizza Vending Machine Exists

Do you need a pizza immediately? Are your standards low, and you only have three minutes to spare? Let’s Pizza is here to help. The vending machine will gladly take your money in one slot, and then deliver you a pizza through another in two and a half minutes.

One selling point of the pizza-making contraption, is that the ingredients are never touched by human hands — creating a completely sanitary meal. The trade-off of course, is that your machine pizza is kneaded and fondled by creepy robot extremities, and winds up looking like something that you forgot in the trunk of your car for a few weeks.

The machines have somehow proven to be such a success in Europe, that they will be making their way to the U.S. shortly. Look for them at your local strip mall, college campus, or outside your medical marijuana dispensary. Please watch this video…

[link, via PSFK]

Tackle This Vending Machine, Receive Beer

To cater to the rugby and beer enthusiasts of Northern Argentina, Cerveza Salta and agency Ogilvy & Mather have come up with the Rugbeer machine. The concept behind the interactive vending machine is simple. Patrons attempt a rugby-style takedown on the beer dispenser, and if the machine’s ‘pussy meter’ decides that you’ve applied enough blunt force trauma, you get a beer.

The Rugbeer recently went on tour, and was placed in bars and pubs during rugby matches — even having fake grass placed around it for the full effect. This concept was attempted here in the states — but bar patrons wouldn’t take on the vending machine without a helmet and shoulder pads.*

*may or may not be true.

[Cerveza Salta, via Design Taxi]

Crab Vending Machine

We’ve all heard of getting crabs from a toilet seat… Well if you happen to be stopping by Nanjing, China — you can now get crabs from a vending machine.

Live Shanghai Hairy Crabs [seriously] are lined up neatly in their spiral chamber, and kept in a state of hibernation at 5°C (41°F). They await catatonically for their number to be called, until they finally descend into the basket of death.

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Coke Goes Freestyle: New Vending Machines Will Offer 104 Flavor Options

Coca-Cola is preparing to reinvent their brand for the 21st Century. The beverage giant has launched a series of Freestyle vending machines capable of dispensing 104 user-controlled flavor options. This will allow for complete customization of beverage choice using a system of flavored syrup cartridges, similar to those used in an ink-jet printer.

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The Coke Ninja

Coca-Cola. Is there anything that it can’t do? Well, a Japanese fashion designer believes that the beverage might also be helpful in warding off possible attackers.

Inspired by ninja assassins, Aya Tsukioka hopes that her design will ease the fear of crime by providing the option of disguising oneself as a vending machine… With feet.

Isn’t the purpose of a disguise to deflect attention? Is Coke—the most popular soft-drink on the planet—the correct choice? We cannot help but wonder if RC Cola would have made more sense in this situation.

Sorry Coke Ninja… Big FAIL.

[via neatorama]