Philosophy
by
Jonathan Chan
July 7th, 2014
Reviewed.com Publications
It happens every day: Around 3pm, I start fumbling for quarters and trying to decide which unsatisfying, wastefully packaged, nutritionally vapid nugget to get from vending machine around the corner.
But what if instead of candy, chips, and soda, a vending machine could dispense hot pizza and cupcakes? That'd make them more like an automat, and a heck of a lot more enticing.
Good news: There are a growing number of companies working to create vending machines that dispense your favorite treats. It's a new dawn for speedy snacking.
Pizza
According to Pizza Marketplace, Americans consume 350 slices of pizza a second (collectively, not per person). With five billion pizzas eaten worldwide each year, it's no wonder Dutch company A1 Concepts has created a pizza vending machine.
The coolest thing about this contraption is that it actually constructs and bakes your pizza on request, rather than reheating a frozen pie. The mechanical wonder starts with all the base ingredients like flour, water, and tomato sauce. It only requires 2.5 minutes to prepare and serve a personal size pizza, and each one costs €3.
Just imagine the profits from putting one of these in a college dormitory.
Cost...
€3=$4.08
Promo...
Demonstration...
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- Classroom Comebacks
My Fellow Comedists, Every Friday, I teach philosophy at a local middle school. Yesterday, we were talking about determinism. After the explanation was over and it was clear every understood the question, I asked whether they had free will. One student...
- Rehabilitation And White Collar Crime
I grew up in Pikesville, the Jewish enclave in Baltimore. It was the boyhood home of Ed Witten, one of the greatest living physicists and a leading advocate of string theory, who attended Wellwood Elementary -- no doubt a formative experience. The area...
- He Himself Then Relapsed Into Laughter
My Fellow Comedists, A big ol' hat tip to good brother Helmut for linking to this. Ever had one of those thoughts that seemed like a good idea at the time... I would have thought this a Monty Python bit, if I didn't know better. True giggle bait....
- That Summer Tan...just A Few Coins Away
Rather novel...looks like a torch which would provide an instant tan, but in reality it is a lotion dispenser. "Model Betty Dutter demonstrates how the spray nozzle is held of the new Sun-Tan Lotion dispenser at the Annual Vending Machine Convention...
Philosophy
Pizza for all
"Push Button for Pizza: A New Era for Vending Machines"
by
Jonathan Chan
July 7th, 2014
Reviewed.com Publications
It happens every day: Around 3pm, I start fumbling for quarters and trying to decide which unsatisfying, wastefully packaged, nutritionally vapid nugget to get from vending machine around the corner.
But what if instead of candy, chips, and soda, a vending machine could dispense hot pizza and cupcakes? That'd make them more like an automat, and a heck of a lot more enticing.
Good news: There are a growing number of companies working to create vending machines that dispense your favorite treats. It's a new dawn for speedy snacking.
Pizza
According to Pizza Marketplace, Americans consume 350 slices of pizza a second (collectively, not per person). With five billion pizzas eaten worldwide each year, it's no wonder Dutch company A1 Concepts has created a pizza vending machine.
The coolest thing about this contraption is that it actually constructs and bakes your pizza on request, rather than reheating a frozen pie. The mechanical wonder starts with all the base ingredients like flour, water, and tomato sauce. It only requires 2.5 minutes to prepare and serve a personal size pizza, and each one costs €3.
Just imagine the profits from putting one of these in a college dormitory.
Cost...
€3=$4.08
Promo...
Demonstration...
- Manna From Comedy Heaven
My Fellow Comedists, You know, you hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but sometimes the Cosmic Comic sends a set-up so easy you wish for a challenge. Crotch shots by Congressman Wiener. The only thing easier IS Congressman Wiener. It leads to the...
- Classroom Comebacks
My Fellow Comedists, Every Friday, I teach philosophy at a local middle school. Yesterday, we were talking about determinism. After the explanation was over and it was clear every understood the question, I asked whether they had free will. One student...
- Rehabilitation And White Collar Crime
I grew up in Pikesville, the Jewish enclave in Baltimore. It was the boyhood home of Ed Witten, one of the greatest living physicists and a leading advocate of string theory, who attended Wellwood Elementary -- no doubt a formative experience. The area...
- He Himself Then Relapsed Into Laughter
My Fellow Comedists, A big ol' hat tip to good brother Helmut for linking to this. Ever had one of those thoughts that seemed like a good idea at the time... I would have thought this a Monty Python bit, if I didn't know better. True giggle bait....
- That Summer Tan...just A Few Coins Away
Rather novel...looks like a torch which would provide an instant tan, but in reality it is a lotion dispenser. "Model Betty Dutter demonstrates how the spray nozzle is held of the new Sun-Tan Lotion dispenser at the Annual Vending Machine Convention...