Food Buzz All you have to do is pick what cupcake you want to buy, swipe your card, and watch as a camera records the claw as it finds and dispenses your baked treat. Pretty cool, huh? The machine is said to be stocked with about 600 freshly baked cupcakes every day.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/115100
So the visually impaired can use them, of course. Just because the blind can’t drive, doesn’t mean they don’t ride in cars.
Culture Buzz There's no telling where a wild shoulder surfer will emerge. QUICK HIDE YOUR PIN.
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/02/snake-slithers-out-of...
That's okay, snake, you keep it. Cash is a rarely used form of payment anyway. An unnamed man went to make a withdrawal from a Caja Madrid bank machine in Spain but got more than he bargained for.
I've always wondered how this was done. The blind film critic shows us how, and that ATMs may not be designed well for the seeing impaired. (via viralviralvideos.com)
Culture Buzz A collection of some of the coolest (and scariest) ATM graffiti I could find.
Mmm, a machine that dispenses pancakes, like an automat but exclusively for the perfect brunch. Sometimes I wish I was tiny so I could sleep on a fluffy, warm, short stack, and then eat my way all the way down. Does that make me brilliant, mentally ill, or, like, *this close* to morbid obesity?
Tech Buzz After a Boing Boing reader discovered an ATM Skimmer — a camouflaged device and hidden camera attached to the ATM which steals your card information and pin — two others quickly found ATM skimmers around Manhattan. To the first eagle-eyed discoverer, police said it was “first one” they'd ever seen. Apparently, they need to be taking a closer look. And this is why I keep all my earnings in a shoebox under my bed. Try and counterfeit that, thieves!