Those really are some crazy eyes!

Fuck that, I'm waiting for hacked alcohol cartridges.

He was probably really nervous. I tried to make a video of myself once and it came across just about as stiff as video did.

Mr. Buddy, porno doesn't count, you're supposed to come across as stiff, you did fine.

you've never seen how a regular soda machine works, have you?

they're basicly giant flavor cartridges hooked up to a water tap with some carbonation equipment inbetween

They're more like wine coolers with yards of hose attached to them to run all the way to the back of the store.

He got all the blinking out of the way right at the beginning.

I guess Mack's dad finally got a job. Good for him.

Also underwhelmed by the touch thing... mostly since cheap homebrew touch tables are all the rage: http://tinyurl.com/3yak6sk
(nerd warning)

But I figure a company that gets Coke as a contract is going to be paying their salesmen a lot more than their engineers...

It's almost certainly Windows CE; that's Bsquare's thing.

appears to use the same wonky interface programmed with the code that self-checkouts use lately, possibly adding yet another 4 months of waiting time in our lifetimes

Restaurants have had this for 100 years, it's called a soda fountain. If you want your Coke to have some orange in it or extra syrup or something, ask your waitress nicely.

If a vending machine gave me drugs I would probably suspect some sort of a setup. Plus, Ritalin is like the RC Cola of uppers. "They still make you? Alright, whatever."

The majority of the slowness I saw in these in market testing in Atlanta was the fact that everyone stands in front of it, mixes a drink, takes a sip then dumps it out and tries another one (hell I did the same thing). In fact I think I heard that they had to increase the draining capacity for that very reason

Out here in SoCal, I never saw anyone doing that. Instead it was people standing in front of the machine, pressing a button to see what options it had, waiting 7 seconds for the screen to come up then navigating back out.

On the one hand I kinda liked being able to get bizarro flavors of my shitty sugarwater. On the other hand, if I'm going to have to deal with a 7 second delay between every button press I'd really rather be communicating with a device on the moon, and I think sody pop from the moon would be a little too cold and irradiated to drink.

A restaurant near where I used to live is testing one of these. It works pretty well, but there really needs to be two of them to make up for the delay while picking a flavor.

HELL YEAH KEEP RAGING AGAINST THAT MACHINE

Seriously, shut up.

Yeah but it wouldn't let you mix them together.

Fine, stars for reminding me of mixing together everything in the soda fountain to make a Mr Pibb That Should Not Be

yes badly needs a "Suicide" button, but I'm betting that didn't fare well with the focus groups.

And how many water cartridges does it take to supply you with all the choices there are?