We're living in the golden age of vending machine innovation. Around the holidays, Ohio State University installed a bacon vending machine, just in time for finals ( it sold ready-to-eat, shelf-stable ...

A Japanese noodle manufacturer has launched the world’s first canned ramen made with wheat noodles which will soon be available in vending machines across the country. Maruyama Seimen’s canned version ...

Vending machines aren’t as big in America as they are in places like Japan, where you can buy everything from a hamburger to socks, to grilled flying fish. That’s probably because we keep putting in ...

It’s 2 AM. The streets are silent. The city's pulse has slowed, lights have dimmed, and even the most vibrant cafés have shut their doors. But somewhere—perhaps in a hospital corridor, a lonely train ...

Nissin Foods teamed with food and drink blog Foodbeast to create a vending machine that trades Instagram posts for prizes, the media company announced. The first machine was installed at the Del Amo ...

Pretty soon, there will be no more restaurants, cafés, or trendy one-item shops — just a post-apocalyptic landscape of vending machines. There are already ones that make latte art for hot coffee in ...

Building an entire mini dispenser around the preparation and distribution of Cup Noodle may seem, shall we say, redundantly redundant, but we can appreciate the mechanics all the same. Hardly ...