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03/29/2006

iPod Vending Machines Hit Vegas

Zoom Systems has debuted their iPod vending machine(s) at the Las Vegas Hilton. First seen at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Argent Hotel, and Hartsfield Atlanta Airport last year. Lots more pics after the jump.
"Located in the Las Vegas Hilton, home to the Star Trek Experience and Barry Manilow, this robotic retail system dispenses a variety of iPods and iPod accessories."
[TechRepublic]

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Posted at 03/29/2006 00:59am by Spencer
Why? aren't they everywhere already?
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Posted at 03/29/2006 01:16am by Jesse
Omfg this is rediculous.
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Posted at 03/29/2006 01:29am by jimbo
Could be useful for the accessories. Like if you lost your earphones or didn't bring an ipod cable or something like that
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Posted at 03/29/2006 01:31am by dudeman
I can see it now. "Mommy, can I borrow a couple $100 dollars? Those iPods look cool!"
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Posted at 03/29/2006 01:32am by A
WHAT THE F***?!
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Posted at 03/29/2006 02:04am by Dillon O'Kelley
I've seen one at my local grocerystore for the past 4 months, nothin new really.
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Posted at 03/29/2006 02:07am by yeah_its_me_
lol that is hilarious, wow it seems like i get aggeravated when i have to put 2 dollars in a vending machine for a coke instead of 1.50 because of inflation imagine that...thing...saying something like your total will be $320.58 sir cash or check? lmao
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Posted at 03/29/2006 02:19am by yeah_its_me_
TYPO TYPO TYPO its coke and cock. my b its late im going to bed. sorry all
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Posted at 03/29/2006 03:01am by PHIXT
Why were the first ones in the airports? if you were going to go on a long flight and wanted to listen to some music while on the plane, why would you go ahead and buy a blank Ipod?
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Posted at 03/29/2006 04:20am by SiC
anyone else notice that yeah_its_me_ on buys cock for $2?
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Posted at 03/29/2006 04:25am by Ali
i saw them at the airport at atlanta an i was like wat and now i see it on techebog and im like wat
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Posted at 03/29/2006 06:55am by K-SO
Crowbar + Vending machine = me selling ipods on ebay.... and makin maad loot!
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Posted at 03/29/2006 09:50am by JWhite
How long do you think it will be until someone attempts to steal some of the stuff in the machines? Security cameras must be all over that thing.
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Posted at 03/29/2006 11:14am by Clunk
Strange. When I was there two weeks ago, they also had PSPs in there. The machine was not fully stocked at the time so they may have simply been trying to fill up some empty slots.
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Posted at 03/29/2006 12:47pm by simon
what happens if it's faulty or you want to return it? doh!
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Posted at 03/29/2006 1:40pm by P1
Japan has had underwear vending machines for years so they could look into how those returns are handled.. not dirty enough? Mail them in and we'll resoil them for you
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Posted at 03/29/2006 3:06pm by Nick
Ever have a bag of chips almost drop but then get stuck in the vending machine? I'll bet it'd be funny to watch the security cameras if that ever happened at the iPod vending machine, after swiping your credit card. Maybe they'll have to buy the 4GB Nano above their stuck 60GB video iPod, to knock it loose! Harper's Index reported a while back that there have been what, eight deaths in the US since 1980 caused by vending machines' falling on people who shook them. I wonder what that number is now. And I wonder what it will be if these start spreading like Starbucks. :-)
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Posted at 03/29/2006 3:24pm by Macintosh Mac
I dont see how they can really make money off of this...I used to work at an apple authorized reseller and resellers make like 10-20 dollars off of the most expensive ipod.
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Posted at 03/29/2006 4:08pm by fraincis
what if your ipod gets stuck and you go to complain and someone buys one of the same kind and gets two for the price of one?? hopefully thatll be me.. and you know how candy bars' prices are a bit jacked up? i bet those ipods will be like $50 more expensive and everybodyll whine about it.. whos down for an ipod vending machine heist?
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Posted at 03/29/2006 4:27pm by Jesse
If im in the airport. yeah it would be conveinant to buy an ipod if i just have $400 to spare.. but wait a minute.. theres no songs on it.. Worst idea ever. Give the option for preloaded content and stick one of theese in LAX, and they might start seeing some buisness
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Posted at 03/29/2006 4:33pm by ryan
Holy F-*ng Sh*t, this is INSANE!!!!!!
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Posted at 03/29/2006 5:04pm by Tim
Makes sense that they'd pop up in Vegas. After a long night on the strip, you stumble into your hotel and drunkenly think that it'd make a great gift, or that you've always been meaning to get one, etc...
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Posted at 03/29/2006 5:11pm by Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive » Only in Vegas, baby…
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Posted at 03/29/2006 5:52pm by ac
um im pretty damn sure that its real purpose is to sell iPods i think its REAL purpose is to supply people who are traveling with acessories id love one of these everywhere I went because i constantly forget my charger/case/headphones ... :-)
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Posted at 03/29/2006 5:56pm by Klint
man..wish i could casually walk up to a vending machine and buy a freaking iPod...how does it dispense it? is it like the coke machines witht the little elevator? or does it just drop it? because i would be pissed of it just dropped my $250 iPod that I just bought from a height of 5+ feet
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