No matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/weird-vending-machines-live-crabs-cupcakes-umbrellas-push-a-button-gallery-1.88951 The Chinese live crab dispensor and http://www.artomat.org/ Art-O-Mat are old news, but the machine of the moment is the DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Maticsthat sit behind glass and 3-D prints your tchotchke of choice.
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