New Samsung Touchscreen Vending Machine

Samsung have launched new vending machines with 46″ LCD touchscreens. These have been developed in partnership with Kraft and at this stage at least will be used exclusively with Kraft product.

The concept is pretty simple, rather than having to type in the number corresponding to a product, you simply touch the image of the product.

The other advantage of this technology is that it can provide more information about the product before you select it – so nutrititional information and potentially also it can display advertising too.

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