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Vending Machine Weekly – Feb. 14th 2010

Here are updates to the vending machine world for this week.

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!)