In the future, you may need a snack machine's approval. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine has facial-recognition technology, meaning it can, apparently, identify customers and remember their ...

A delay can help people pick healthier snacks. Creative Commons When faced with a 3 p.m. stomach grumble, it’s pretty difficult to pick a Clif bar over a Snickers. But this new vending machine thinks ...

SiliconANGLE Dallas is covering the burgeoning Dallas/Fort Worth Startup scene. We invite startup founders to share their stories at our biweekly event, Media Day: Open Office Hours. We recently met ...

If you wanted a bag of Doritos from one of Brad Appelhans' experimental vending machines, you'd have to wait. The associate professor of preventative medicine at Rush University Medical Center ...

Vending machines aren’t just your break from the office anymore. Instead of snacks, they dispense knowledge, in the form of chapbooks, hi-tech gadgets and quizzes, and merge instant gratification with ...

When buying treats from a vending machine, we often have the opportunity to choose between unhealthy and (relatively) healthy snacks. Doritos or popcorn? Snickers or a granola bar? Peanuts or ...

From hot canned coffee and corn soup to highballs, dashi, and even gyoza, Japan’s vending machines offer a fascinating look ...

After researching different options, I kept coming across one business model that checked most of the boxes: vending machines. What surprised me most was how quickly it actually came together once I ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A meat vending machine outside of a Florida butcher shop and restaurant is offering fresh cuts, Italian sausage and more meaty snacks 24/7. Growing up, Andrew Tambuzzo, owner of ...

In the middle of a nationwide obesity epidemic, a handy device dripping with temptation often lurks around the workplace corner – the vending machine. America’s vending machine industry earned $21.6 ...