Slashdot is
carrying this story about a new line of Japanese vending machines that display different beverage choices depending on the machine's guess about the customer's age and sex. I'm also impressed that these machines contain 47" touch screens! That's bigger than my TV.
Unless prices for touch screens have collapsed, the screen alone must cost a few hundred dollars.
Story is
here.
When they pan across the bottles around 0:45 into the video, there's a product called "Pocari Sweat"! Just want I'd want to drink on a hot day; how about you? How come all the products in that frame have English names?