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Motorola Unveils Phone Vending Machines
DaveWick79 writes "The 'Instantmoto' is being installed at 20 malls and airports nationwide and will carry about 30 products including 12 phones and 18 accessories. Included is the popular Razr and you can choose whether or not to purchase with a service plan. Instead of being dropped into a tray, apparently a robotic arm will 'gently deliver' the product to consumers. The only question now is, will we be able to pay for these items using our cell phones?"
use the cell phones I want to purchases to purchases the cell phone I am purchasing?
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Instead of being dropped into a tray, apparently a robotic arm will 'gently deliver' the product to consumers.
That's much better than the prototype I saw, where the robot arm disembowels the customer and spills their entrails all over the linoleum.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Just saw this concept in Ultraviolet -- you could buy a phone from a vending machine, and it would be "printed", ready to go. It usually takes much longer for a concept like this to go from scifi to reality!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
No, you will have to use them up before you board the plane. Because, the phones in a vending machine inside the secure area of an airport could hold explosives, like a battery.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
I have a hard enough time trying to pull a big old stuffed animal out with those robotic arms much less a tiny tiny phone. At 50 bucks a pop rather than 50 cents, I'm going to waste a lot of money.
Let me be the first to say this gives a whole new meaning to "reach out and touch someone"...
Any idea when they will having vending machines that dispense vending machines?
Theoretically, you'd only ever need one at a location, for all of time. (Well that...and a lot of floor space.)
Its hard enough to buy a Cell phone at a store that just sells Cell phones. Will it be easier to buy them from a vending machine? Will I still have to listen to a speech about insurance, or calling plans? Will I get my soul back when the contract expires?!