Have a favorite Deli where you visit for the best sandwiches and meat? Why not try Ike's Place vending machine. The Deli, based in San Francisco is a frequented place, and people just love their sandwiches. They are conducting a survey on how well-liked a vending machine featuring their sandwiches might be. (source: San Francisco's Favorite Deli Coming to a Vending Machine Near You)

What if you really like your iPhone, but you just can't deal with the fact nothing else compares? Try out the Diji-Touch vending machine, which features an iPhone-like interface, for all those tech-lovers out there. (source: Why Diji-Touch's iPhone-Inspired Vending Machines Rule)

Our First Lady is hard at work, trying to stave sugar-filled snack vending machines at schools, instead offering more healthy alternatives. This is probably a good time to serve those healthy snacks, in a healthy snack vending machine instead! (source: Daily Buzz: So Long, Snickers and More School Vending Machine Favorites)

We earlier reported in our first weekly updated for Feb. 1st, that the United Kingdom is trying to legislate the sale of tobacco in vending machines. Well, if you're American, you already know there just isn't many cigarette vending machines around. However, this change in political thinking has caused outpours of contesting opinion. Particularly, tobacco companies like Imperial Tobacco are trying to fight it. (source: Imperial Tobacco To Contest UK Vending Machine Ban)

You know how crazy and cool those dvd rental vending machines are, and how many people visit them, daily? Well, even Wall Street executives agree with you, no seriously, they do. Now more competitors are entering the market, because as we all agree, this will be the source for renting your movie. (source: Iowa pair's kiosks follow movie-rental shifts in U.S.)

The universal fix is of course duct tape, so why not visit an industrial vending machine for a fix? Maybe you need some work gloves, or other industrial work essentials? (source: Industrial Vending Machines Provide Work Gloves, Duct Tape and Other Essentials to City Staff)

Even during an economic slump, you can't get rid of those vending machines. This article tells us that sales increased for a vending machine distributor because of companies resizing and cutting their food court, instead opting for vending machines as an alternative. (source: Vending machines prosper in economic slump)

When you are in an extremely niche market, you should always win. What about Harvard though, they need a vending machine that delivered a card capable of buying research credits and other things, so they came out with a Crimson Cash vending machine, just to make everyone feel a bit more at home when they visit the Harvard library. (source: Crimson Cash To Be Sold in Lamont)

Last, but certainly not least, vending machines may be able to recharge your cell phone. Of course, you'll need to purchase a sugary drink from them first. A cell phone that is powered by soft drinks was recently told of, so no longer worry about the charge on your phone. Just worry about where you can find your next drink to fill it up again. (source: The Coke-powered cellphone: It's the real thing, seriously!)

PepsiCo debuts a new and completely Hydro-Fluoro-Carbon free machine at the Super Bowl, did I mention it was also energy efficient? PepsiCo says, "We introduced the first vending machine using CO2 technology to the US market last year, and today we are introducing the first HC cooler to the US market." (Source: PepsiCo Debuts Energy-Efficient, HFC-Free Cooler at Super Bowl)

And don't forget Feb. 7th will be the time for the Super Bowl!

New discussion and possible outrage is arising over legislation over health bills that target snack vending machines. The legislation will require vending machine operators to include calorie and nutritional facts about their products being offered on their machines. TheStreet.com reports, "Just one mere sentence in the Senate version of the bill could cost the vending machine industry as much as $56.4 million in added costs during the first year of reform" (Source: Health Bills Target Tanning, Snack Machines)

How about something on the bleeding edge of vending machine technology? One article on ThomasNet News tells us of a wireless "machine to machine" device which is capable of relaying vending statistics back to the home base, from afar. It's the G-4500 Series, by ICP DAS USA, Inc. (Source: Machine to Machine Communication with G-4500 Series)

Did you know the famously "rapture-esque" PC gaming title BioShock and BioShock 2 has vending machines? Instead of reality, this vending machine remains in the vast and excitingly fearful landscape of the game, and it's called the Gatherer's Garden vending machine, which can vend you some plasmaids for some in-game powerups. (Source: EXCLUSIVE: 'BioShock 2' Guide - Every Plasmid And Tonic Revealed)

Toronto is doing something a bit different, and instead of giving prescriptions out like we would at our local pharmacies, they elect a prescription vending machine instead. These ATM-like kiosks, refill your prescription-all for convenience! (Source: ATM-like kiosks to fill prescriptions in Ont. hospitals, remote areas)

When you pull up to the gas station to refill your tank, always remember that could be olive oil, or fruit juice instead, coming from the pumps. No really, a company called Wrap is packaging up our favorites and putting them in a gas-tank like pump system, all for your convenience. Trial markets are continuing.  (Source: Buy fabric conditioner from refill machine to save money)

We know the legacy of cigarette vending machines here in America, but in the U.K. they are still prominent, at least for now. New legislation that might be enacted, propose for the banning of cigarette vending machines and other smoking related advertising. (Source: Imperial Hits Back at U.K. Cigarette Packaging Proposal)

Interesting fact: Did you know that The Book of Odds pegs the chance of a person dying from a vending machine accident in a year at 1 in 112 million.

We all know texting is how many people communicate digitally now, but did you know texting can also buy you a can of soda? New "Machine to Machine" technology will make texting interface with vending machines, allowing you to text what you want to a vending machine, and get what you ordered! (Source: M2M – Hype or Reality?)

Going off "the deep end" has a whole new meaning, because we now have a live lobster vending machine! This vending machine is located at places like Tinoco’s Kitchen and Micky Finnz in Las Vegas and promises that for $2.00 per try, you could have your lobster meal, straight from the machine. (Source: Cool or cruel? This game lets you play with your food)