And before apple, some large factories use a similar system for toolbits/consumables/things people might try to swipe.
instead of a credit card, you swipe an id badge, so it keeps track of who took all the 100$ drill bits home.
From what I saw it was designed to be able to dispense things of varying sizes with 100% reliability, a delay in your candy fix is annoying, a 1 or 2 hour delay of a machine that you are charging 300$ or more an hour for usage is much more of an issue.
I don't know if sony and apple are using the identical machines, but they look pretty damn close.
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Of course, I think Sny is following Apples lead... it was several years ago when I heard about the first iPod vending machine./QUOTE]
I had no idea Apple did that! I'm learning so much interesting stuff today.
Oh, and kiosk to me is a hotdog cart. Another possible "retirement income idea." Also, I picked up an idea from a man in the Bahamas who had a great business, made $100 in one hour per day, then spends the rest of the day at the beach being retired. I'm not gonna tell what it is, but it involves sand and rum. :-)
BTW, I'm thinking of retirement ideas, because in 4 more years, I'll retire at age 51. So I'm thinking of fun things to do a couple of hours per week, so that I won't turn into my dad. Early retirement made him a very depressed, unpleasant, and unfulfilled man, because he was retired for longer than he worked.
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They need to sell memory sticks with a couple of popular e-books on them, that would work in an airport! But the whole rental thing is a great idea too, then people that would normally be too afraid to take the plunge can check it out and enjoy it and spread the good word an all that.
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Like the portable dvd players+dvd's some airlines rent, that would be awesome! rent on one side drop on the other.
The sony would be perfect for the memory stick sale idea, with its two card ports. especially if they sell them on the smallest storage sony sticks as a standard.
have a SD card already in, plug in your disposable book stick(tm), transfer the file to your SD card and eject it again.