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Age-verification cams on ciggie vending machines fooled with mag-photos

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2008-06-30 07:25:50 by HASH0x8b691e0 in Newlaunches.com
...machines , so that under-aged people would not get access to the poison stick. But apparently there is a terrible glitch in the system. A Sankei Sports news reporter carried out some tests and realized that magazine photos can be used to fool the age-verification cameras on some machines. Some new machines were introduced in the Osaka area in...
 
Tags: machines, special machines, require taspo cards, taspo, wide magazine photo, taspo card, cigarettes, card, recognition hardware
 
 
 
 
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The World's Weirdest Vending Machines

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2008-08-13 06:52:48 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...machines into airports got me thinking about these automated, mechanical stores. Vending machines can be incredibly useful if they are put in the right place, and sell the right things. They are available 24 hours and can empower even the shyest of shoppers to buy normally embarrassing items (toilet paper, anyone Best Buy has it right,...
 
Tags: machines, machine, beverage machine, machine flickrjosh berglund, love machine snopes, possibly apocryphal machines, nearby candy machines, egg, egg boxes
 
 
 
 
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7 scariest problems with today's voting machines

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2008-10-20 18:42:08 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...machines. It's a good idea as long as the technology is reliable. But when you put voters, inexperienced poll workers, and a variety of machines together, weird things could happen In our research to create DVICE's Guide to Voting Machines in the USA , we discovered that some voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, some machines are more...
 
Tags: machines, poll workers, poll workers alike, voters, election day, flummox voters, election, votes, lost votes
 
 
 
 
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Absolut Machines live

2008-02-25 14:45:52 by David Carlson in Gadgets giz
 
...Machines , the Absolut Quartet, up and running at a guerilla gallery at 186 Orchard St on Manhattan, NYC. Whats best is that you can interact with The Absolut Quartet from all over the world via your keyboard! Just go to the Absolut Machines web and sign in. Please not that you have to write your date of birth before you can watch the movie....
 
Tags: absolut, absolut machines, absolut machines project, absolut machines web, movie, quicktime movie, absolut quartet, nice movie, andra bloggar
 
 
 
 
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Ohio Sues E-Voting Machine Maker But Keeps Same Crappy E-Voting Machines [Election]

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2008-08-12 19:40:00 by Dan Nosowitz in Gizmodo
...machines caused in the super swing state in 2004 and 2006the same machines which will, frighteningly enough, still be used to gather and/or misplace Ohio votes in the upcoming McCain-Obama contest The Diebold machines achieved notoriety in the 2004 presidential election, losing hundreds of votes and exhibiting several serious security flaws....
 
Tags: machines, election, faulty machines, presidential election, diebold machines, premier election solutions, premier, jennifer brunner, brunner
 
 
 
 
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New medimo gym machines with finger vein readers know your regime

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2008-02-20 07:31:43 by HASH0x8ba2800 in Newlaunches.com
...machines, the equipment will be able to identify the user with a simple press of the finger. The machine will then automatically adjust the weight resistance and seat position based on the user's previously set preferences. The machines also hook up to a remote server to retrieve the user's personal exercise data, which includes previous...
 
Tags: machines, medimo gym machines, medimo machines, calorie consumption data, data, personal exercise data, automobile ignition systems, cardless payment systems, user
 
 
 
 
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Absolut Machines: Absolut Quartet

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2008-02-28 15:20:29 by HASH0x8c40a54 in Cool Hunting
...Machines is Absolut's promotional initiative that explores where technology meets design in the form of two "machines." Last night we got to check out one, the Absolut Quartet, an interactive multi-instrumental robotic machine. It consists of a marimba played by rubber balls precisely shot from a robotic cannon, a series of spinning...
 
Tags: absolut machines, machines, dos-like absolut machines, absolut, absolut quartet, quartet, robotic machine, machine, unique musical composition
 
 
 
 
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The history of Japanese vending machines

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2008-06-18 10:25:03 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...machines: To go back a bit, the first known vending machine was a pneumatically driven holy water vending machine in an Egyptian temple in Alexandria in 215 B.C. The first Japanese machine made its dedebut over 2 millenniums later in 1890 and the oldest existing stamp vending machine from 1904 can still be seen at the Museum Meiji-Mura. Since...
 
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Best Buy Vending Machines Landing at an Airport Near You

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2008-08-13 05:19:31 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...machines in to the nation's airports, selling all manner of impulse-buy friendly gadgets. Cell phones and headphones will make it in, but far more sensible, given the location, is the inclusion of chargers and travel adapters Best Buy will be teaming up with vending company Zoomsystems, so the machines will likely look similar to the...
 
Tags: machines, arcade machines, impulse-buy friendly gadgets, launch express gadget, arm, robot arm, teddy bear, san francisco, company zoomsystems