Hardware

50 strange vending machines

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January 20, 2023

Boredpanda.com, a Lithuanian website that publishes articles about "lightweight and inoffensive topics," has published a list of 50 vending machines designed for specific purposes, adapted based on user votes from an original list of 140 machines.

Highlights include machines that dispense the following:

• Food for stray dogs. (Three such machines listed).
• Medications for pet falcons.
• Live bait.
• Pre-pasted toothbrushes.
• Packaged strawberries.
• Pineapple peelers.
• Propane accessories.
• A machine in a Japanese hotel containing a live beehive honeycomb dispensing honey.
• A machine in a Los Angeles library dispensing stories printed on streams of paper.
• A machine at a graveyard dispensing lanterns and candles.
• Dedicated sriracha bottle vending machines in Japan. (Two such machines listed.)
• A dedicated bread dispenser in Germany.
• A dedicated champagne bottle machine that only takes coins.
• A candle vending machine in a church.
• A holy water vending machine in a church.
• A dedicated pencil vending machine in a school.
• A Muslim hijab vending machine.