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- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+207How can you NOT pay attention to Japanese commercials? They're hilarious!
- xerus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+84Trick question... he wasn't wearing a jacket.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+86Should be interesting to see how they determine if a person is really watching the video, or not paying attention to the machine until their drink is ready.
Built in cameras to track eye movement? - theMurdocVolta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+69Should be Interesting to see how many drinks one person can walk away with.
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61Yea like those Defensive driving tapes.
"What color jacket was Dr. Dre wearing when he was explaining turn signals?" - musters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59This system would fail for the following reasons:
- Homeless people would flock to them, obviously they are not influenced by the ads.
Feel free to add to this list. - Quellman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61Straight Jacket in a white room.
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56To keep homeless people away the machine should emit the scent of other homeless people. Since the homeless are notoriously territorial, they won't dare wonder into an area marked by a rival hobo's urine and feces.
- BAWilliams, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50I'd guess a simple question at the end of the segment to make sure they watched and in turn vending the beverage.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46timsline ---
I've been to a "gambling" type of site where you had to watch ads to continue playing (yes, it got boring very quickly). To make sure that you were paying attention, the site would ask you a simple question about that ad after it played. Maybe they could do something similar with this. A simple question to make sure you were paying attention would probably be a lot easier than eye tracking. It also pretty much guarantees that the consumer had your product on his/her mind. - Lezlee798, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43A giant Line would form, so it takes like 10 minutes to get a drink, even if you pay.
- Scyth3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37"Ahh man...it's an RC Cola machine..."
- trer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33"This system would fail for the following reasons:
- Homeless people would flock to them, obviously they are not influenced by the ads.
Feel free to add to this list. "
That's an easy fix. Deploy these machines only in office buildings, university buildings, inside shopping malls, employee lunch rooms, etc. They don't have to be outside. - jhnewt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35Why would Coke pay for an ad if after watching it you get the Coke for free?
- levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I'm exposed to thousands of ads a day, a free drink for watching a 30 sec commercial wouldn't hurt. Hey it's free!
- ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Dude, why can't we get that here?
- noots, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28my addition to the list:
• that was my goddamn comment on engadget. - person425, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25lol@noots
That's what you get for not writing down and patenting every idea you come up with :-) - pongjinn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Oh c'mon, this is just the beginning. We are well on our way to the free-beer fountain.
- KielKilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21If you live in America you know exactly why.
- voidvector, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24based on the trend in America, we would probably be forced to watch a commercial and still pay $1.25 for a soda.
- samard2002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Honestly, if it was in America, everyone would immediately find a way to subvert the process and explain why they should get the drinks for free without having to watch ads. Then they would boycott the soft drink manufacturer and the United Soft Drink Association would start suing individual drinkers.
- shableep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20wow. now, if i could get free gas while watching billboards on the highway... THEN we'd be in business.
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18What kind of advertisers will be trying to appeal to the demographic of people who don't want to pay for a soft drink?
- darkstar949, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Watch carefully.... there will be a quiz at the end!
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Interesting, J4320.
and with an active network connection these ads can be updated frequently to prevent people from eventually memorizing the questions, and plus those Japanese ads are top notch hilarity :D - billizm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Sounds like a good idea at first, but I wonder how they will keep the exploitation factor down.
- TimTheSloth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Eeewww! ...I'll take the crab juice.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The honesty system at its uh... I don't know worst? best?
- VeraLynn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10We see so many commercials, you'd think that eventually people would start becoming numb to them... at what point is it commercial overload and hence ineffective?
- kafitz22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It'd suck to just want a freaking drink and have to deal the 7 person line though. They'd keep the normal pay-per-drink kind next to it, I'd assume though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10no it wouldn't. you still have the option of going to the other vending machine and paying money and getting it right away. you still have the same convenience you do. this is just an alternative for those who'd rather spend time than money.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8thats a pretty cool idea if the drinks dont suck.
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@J4320:
Gee, imagine if they put these things in schools, and offered kids a free soft drink if they were able to answer a pop-quiz question directly. - fuzzmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I wonder if they would make it require a credit card, so they could make sure that you only use it once per day, even though it wouldn't actually charge the card.
- nexah3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+730 SECONDS?!?! Cmon
I want my soda NOW. - thecheatah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think this is a really good idea. Water is sometimes hard to find, unless you always have a bottle on you. I remember in india, you could almost go up to any store and ask them for water, and they wouldnt mind. Here (the US) they say you must buy something first. Its just weird.
Also water fountains here are not well maintained, and often have this green residue on them. - ScreaminIke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6used to be an unending tap somewhere in pennsylvania... but i guess they shut it down or restricted access once they figured out people's reactions to free beer...
- fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Mr Sparkle get dishes clean .
here's your free Duff - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@flarn
Credit cards dont have anything to do with your name.. - samard2002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5On the contrary, with so many ads, a novel way to market your product is more valuable.
- zomgflamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5^well this works in Japan but you bring that here in the U.S. its gonna become the homeless man's oasis. I got enough homeless dudes on campus walking around drunk and high trying to sell me trash weed and piss filled booze bottles. I don't want them building shelter around the vending machines.
- noots, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7yeah that was a bit of an asinine comment. isn't exactly rocket science to realise what is going to happen.
- KielKilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think thats the market plan. Because alot of people now probably just walk right buy most ads numbly. But this assures the cunsumer actually views the ad.
- kafitz22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4mmm delicious sweet Moxie.
- mrkoje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This doesn't really surprise me after living in Japan for three years. You have to understand that in Japan, there are vending machines on nearly every street corner (outside.) Different from the US. Also, you can buy more then just soft drinks from them as well in Japan. The one outside my house sold all kinds of nifty trinkets including a *cough* backup pair of men's briefs for those emergency situations I suppose. Oh, they also sell beer out of the vending machines as well and they are very (or at least were while I lived there) common. Orion beer ftw!
- EndersGame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If vending machines can make a profit off of ads in this fashion, I believe the entire recording industry could do the same. Lace an application with a couple ads and distribute music over it, you could pay the artists and the content provider more than they make now with the awful deals they have with the major labels. If you had to you could charge 10-20 cents a song, anything over that would just be lining the RIAA's pockets who are undeserving of any money at all.
- cthulhupunk0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What would be real creepy is if they start doing this for cigarette vending machines. Then you're dealing with a relaxed, addictive nicotine buzz being associated with watching advertising.
The bell rings, and everyone watches a commercial... - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3To limit the amount one person can have a day, they could link it to a mobile phone and send you an SMS message with an activation code (like a CAPTCHA). You get 2 "credits" per day, and obviously some drinks might be one credit or two credits. Sure the system can be beaten by using other peoples phones, or multiple phones, but it will stop the majority of abuse the machines get (ie. no one spending a few hours getting 100 free drinks).
This is such a win idea too. - LMaxey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or one of those Swedish hash vending machines
If your high you wouldn't mind watching a thirty minute commercial for some free snacks -
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