The guilt of spending your uni years dining from vending machines could be a thing of the past with a new model that serves up a piping hot meal alongside a cold drink. A company called EatWave Vending has created a refrigerated machine with a microwave inside, letting it automatically nuke pre-packaged items like burritos and sandwiches.
Since the machine is built on a standard chassis it can be configured to stock all of the standard vending machine snack fare. But with the microwave built-in the food is always sealed in its packaging which helps avoid the pitfalls of a shared oven that usually ends up looking and smelling disgusting on the inside.
With a price tag creeping up on £7,500 the new EatWave model might seem expensive, but this is one of those investments that will most definitely pay for itself over time. Unless you see this as the perfect replacement for every appliance in your kitchen. [Market Watch via Ubergizmo]













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I can see this being on Dragon’s Den and getting no interest because the number don’t seem to add up.
I actually see this as a brilliant franchise opportunity for the manufacturer/IP owner. I bagsy Northern England & Scotland territories. How can anyone pass up a hot pasty and a can of red bull?
Hell, I’ll take the UK market. Just need to put my business plan up on Kickstarter. Investors get one free snack a week for a year.
All the pasties I’ve had tell you to take out of the packet before microwaving…
Not with these new fangled microwave in the bag pasties.
Microchips would work.
Sounds good to me.
Out of hours uni work would be much better with a hot snack.
I rather liked the idea of the pizza vending machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lxiU8eLM
I tried one of these out at the bus station in Sorrento. It’s was obviously there for the benefit of the tourists, but hey, it provided hot pizza at 1AM, and it tasted better than any of the supermarket rubbish we get in the UK.
Clearly a win.