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Japanese ciggie vending machines demand ID

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2008-05-12 15:49:20 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
Japanese tobacco-smokers must get themselves a special puffing passport if they wish to get their fix from the nation's ciggie vending machines. From Wired: "The legal smoking age in Japan may be 20, but schoolgirls in need of a nicotine fix have always had an easy workaround: "Vending machines can't tell if you're 16," says Haruka Narazaki, a...
 
Tags: machines, nicotine fix, japanese tobacco-smokers, fix, tobacco, safe distance, ciggie, haruka narazaki, japanese schoolgirl
 
 
 
 
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Macys to set up iPod vending machines

2008-06-04 04:37:14 by Editor in Gizmodiva.com
 
These iPod vending machines have been swarming all over UK and now theyre coming to Macys. After the prominent success of the vending machines in international airports and hotels, Macys decided to add 180 automatic dispensers to 400 of
 
Tags: machines, macys, ipod, prominent success, international airports, automatic dispensers, hotels
 
 
 
 
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Dope! Medical vending machines to get you high

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2008-01-28 18:15:40 by Alex Roumbas in Shiny Shiny
The US state of California is launching a clutch of medical vending machines that can dispense marijuana to patients with a valid prescription. Despite lack of federal recognition of medical efficacy, 11 of 50 US states allow medicinal use of the drug for purposes such as pain relief and appetite stimulus
 
Tags: medical, medical efficacy, appetite stimulus, valid prescription, federal recognition, machines, pain relief, dispense marijuana, california
 
 
 
 
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AED vending machines and public installations

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2008-04-10 06:01:40 by Michael in Trends in Japan
Safety-conscious Japan has been deploying Automated External Defibrillators (AED) in public places the past few years, especially at schools and train stations. Weve been spotting more and more of them lately, though were quite interested in finding some data on how often theyre used. Since vending machines are just about everywhere in Japan,...
 
Tags: aed, machines, handy aed, coffee overdoses, external defibrillators, factory tours, public, michael keferl, japan
 
 
 
 
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Age Detecting Vending Machines Hacked With Photos of Old People

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2008-06-27 03:45:26 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
When we covered Japanese age-detecting cigarette vending machines back in may, one Gadget Lab reader, named Monjombo, left this comment So if I hold up a picture of Sean Connery, I won't be able to hack this Well, Monjombo. It turns out that, yes, you could. A reporter for Sankei Sports tried fooling the machines with photographs. One was a 6"...
 
Tags: photos, machines, magazine photos fool, fool, pink tentacle, cameras pink tentacle, sean connery, photo, gadget lab reader
 
 
 
 
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Uniqlo to turn mimes into "human vending machines" in Times Square

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2008-10-30 14:19:08 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
It is commonly observed that the only real pleasure to be eked out of the "art" of mime is by locking the albino mutes in transparent acrylic coffins, setting them up on street corners and see how long it takes for pedestrians to realize that his frantic "trapped in box" act is not merely an annoying performance, but actually that mime's own...
 
Tags: mimes, uniqlo, times square, mime, filthy mime, heat tech innerwear, expect cyanide tablets, distribute free pairs, transparent acrylic coffins
 
 
 
 
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MEI Migrates SAP Application to AT&T

2008-05-14 17:45:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
AT&T's Leading Application Services Capabilities Allow MEI to Manage Its Business in a Cost-Effective, Flexible Environment San Antonio, Texas, May 14, 2008 AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that MEI, one of the world's leading manufacturers of electronic bill acceptors, coin mechanisms and other unattended transaction systems, selected AT&T...
 
Tags: application, application services capabilities, services, support, support services, sap enterprise application, sap, sap services practice, application services customers
 
 
 
 
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Japan's face-authorizing cigarette machines no match for Bruce Willis photo

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2008-07-01 03:43:00 by Thomas Ricker in Engadget
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Remember those Japanese vending machines that use face recognition to scan for wrinkles and saggy skin before authenticating cigarette purchases? Surprise, they're so easy to circumvent that even a nicotine-addicted kid can do it. Turns out the cameras will authenticate "a 15-centimeter (6-inch) wide magazine photo...
 
Tags: cigarette, cigarette purchases, machines, successful cigarette vend, 1-inch wide photo, machines feature, wide magazine photo, rfid readers, raw feed
 
 
 
 
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Japan to start overseas cell phone technology push

2008-09-08 23:08:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
TOKYO (AP) Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Internet connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation...
 
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