Flickr find: Someone forgot to restock the vending machine!

Japanese panty vending machine:

http://www.borg-cube.com/pix/japan2004-pam/japan2004-pam-Pages/Image43.html

I'd guess the marketers weren't thinking about people using the iPods themselves, but more likely buying them as last-minute gifts. The number of travelling business-people who are panic buying for their kids is frightening.

There's an iPod vending machine in a San Francisco Macy's. I was visiting, so I don't recall the specifics of which one, but it was cool to see. As of last week they had all new iPod minis.

If you buy and iPod at an airport kiosk, how are you gonna get tunes onto it? If you have your laptop with you, why not just listen to the tunes from there? Plus, iirc, the iPods don't have much (if any) battery charge in them at purchase, so you'd also have to find a power outlet.

Costco has bunches of the old ones, not for much of deal though, the 4gb black nano was only $30 cdn cheaper than a new one.

I've been traveling a lot recently and there's at least one of these in every international terminal I've been in. Talk about an impulse buy for a long flight!

They probably aren't so popular because, well, where do you return it if you have a problem with it?

I went into this exact hotel just a few weeks ago to use the bathroom inside of it....I was very suprised when I saw this machine and showed all my friends. I don't know if I would be willing to buy an ipod shuffle from a vending machine though...sounds a little risky to me

@ Ink Master... its true, i saw one of those in tokyo's narita airport, sadly i din't have a pic lol

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