http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/under-age The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. xx http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/saabira-chaudhuri/itinerant-mind/japans-quirky-vending-machines <p> Put some change in, thrust your face out and prepare for… a quick nicotine fix and an estimate of your wrinkles. </p> <p> The Japanese have always had the world's quirkiest vending machines – actually I'd go so far as to say the world's quirkiest products in general. I did a <a href="/multimedia/slideshows/content/vending.html" rel="nofollow">slideshow on quirky vending machines</a> for Fast Company last year; commonly dispensed products include toilet paper, beetles, porn and sex toys, umbrellas, fortunes, rice, and of course cigarettes and beer. </p><p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/saabira-chaudhuri/itinerant-mind/japans-quirky-vending-machines">read more</a></p> bbc cigarettes Design dispense face recognition technology fujitaka identification Innovation Innovation japan minor niccotene quirky smokers Technology under age vending machine Design 851491 Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:21 -0400 Saabira Chaudhuri 851491 at http://www.fastcompany.com