Those Japanese touchscreen vending machines in Tokyo will be the future of street-level drink sales, but are the Japanese actually liking it? Let’s find out.
Japan Probe summarizes:
• High school girls think it’s cool.
• Some customers have trouble determining what component of the screen should be touched on the way to buy a drink.
• When it detects a young man, it recommends a sports drink or bottled water.
• When it detects a girl, it recommends tea or bottled water.
• It has trouble detecting faces when eyes are blocked by dark sunglasses.
Confusion about where to press should only be a brief thing, and the recommendation thing sounds interesting. Recommending a cold drink when it’s hot, or a hot one when it’s cold, can be a sexy logical extension of this. I really like the way in which you suspect, Japan. [ Japan Probe ]
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