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...step for a very old technology. A 1st century Greek may have invented the first coin-operated vending machine to sell holy water. The modern precursor of today's machines surfaced in 1880s London, dispensing postcards. Since then, machines have been used to sell everything from, well, soup to nuts. But they've remained fully rooted in the analog world. Enter Crowley's server-based company. It transforms video-game machines to offer 30 different games instead of one, and gives jukeboxes the capacity to deliver 2.2 million songs. Crowley expects the Coke machines could tap into that same tuneful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vendor Benders | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...foot of the Acropolis to catch a performance at the Herodus Atticus theatre. Whatever the show, it's worth soaking up the dramatic ambience. I'd then dine at Varoulko downtown for a platter of baby calamari sautéed in basil sauce and a dessert of fruit soup and cinnamon ice cream.[an error occurred while processing this directive] You can burn it off afterward by bopping and bouncing among Athens' chichi socialites at Balthazar in the city center. But if there's a full moon, the Parthenon is the place to be. A frenzy of free events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night In Athens | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...easier to break up with a boyfriend by text message than face him in person; that way, you don't have to suffer through his tears. Just like it's easier to complain about restaurant service online than to tell the waiter there's a fly in the soup. And we enjoy confessing secrets to anonymous web sites visited by total strangers, but we can't admit that same secret to the one person we betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...location for Fly-By will be station-based, so that students will be able to go to different places to get a hot entree, soup, sandwich, or chips rather than wait in one line...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faster Fly-By, New Decor for Loker | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...less reliable result or a freshly created line that would require the purchase of another machine with private funds. "It's a ball and chain," Goldstein says. "It's goofy. Imagine if your kitchen was a mixture like that, where you can't use those pots with that soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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