UMATILLA, Fla. — This vending machine isn’t dispensing candy, chips, or soda. It’s dropping knowledge. An elementary school in Umatilla, Florida, unveiled the machine this week as part of the state’s ...

A strange new spin on the vending machine has cropped up in the city of Grenoble: instead of dispensing soda and snacks, these sleek orange and black machines print out free short stories. Conceived ...

PALM CITY, Fla. — A vending machine at a school in Martin County isn't dispensing sugary snacks, just knowledge and learning. Children at Citrus Grove Elementary in Palm City on Wednesday couldn't ...

Adams County Christian School swaps snacks for stories with a new vending machine that rewards reading points with free books ...

The vending machine is packed with 250 books, and they have an additional 540 books from Scholastic, which is enough to keep the machine stocked for the next three years. The machine talks and guides ...

A Farmer's Fridge vending machine monitors the temperature of items and locks food that are past their prime. (Farmers Fridge) What do most travelers and healthcare workers have in common? A hard time ...

BURBANK (CBSLA.com) — Caviar is not the usual fare one would expect from a vending machine. Beverly Hills Caviar has unveiled its first touch-screen vending machine at the Burbank Town Center, ...

You won’t find Snickers bars or a bag of Doritos stocked in the newest vending machines at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Instead, a burrito bowl, a green goddess salad and almond butter ...

An Oklahoma City resident paid for a counseling session for a woman she never met, while another made multiple donations to seven different nonprofits — all through special vending machines at a local ...

A Massachusetts elementary school is turning to automated retail to boost literacy, swapping traditional snack dispensing for a machine stocked entirely with reading material.