Hands on with the Diji-Touch LCD Touchscreen Vending Machine

You can start saying goodbye to traditional vending machines. Because within a few years, these Futurama-style vending machines using Samsung’s LCDs, are sure to take over. Instead of a traditional vending machine with a glass front encasing products, Diji-Touch has a touch screen LCD on the front of it that lets you interact with the vending machine in unique ways. For example, you can use it to find out about how many calories that Snicker bar you’re eyeing is, or you can  find out about which is the healthiest snack available in the machine. Alternatively you can use the display to play games and have the option to win cool prizes, or in some cases, you could win additional snacks from the machine. The Diji-Touch machines will begin being tested in the first half of ‘09, and you can expect to see them around town starting mid 2010. But as much as these do look very cool, we can’t help but wonder… what will you do now if a snack gets stuck? It’s not like you’ll know to shake the machine to knock it out, nor it looks like you’ll be able too – the system looks heavy.