Nice!!! Try all the flavors on one trip and OD on sugar!!! WOO HOO

It's flavored sugar-water, for God's sake.

These idiots remind one of the apes jumping around the obelisk at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cool yes but it is going to suck when you get stuck behind someone who has no clue how to operate it. Some people have problems swipping a card in the check out line and if they have to enter their PIN and answer a few question they get really lost.

It is also fun watching people trying to use a Redbox machine as well. Some people stare at the screen as if they where a deer in headlights.

@Hawkins:

Then count me in among the man-apes worshiping at the god of wakeful liquid providing goodness.

but does it dispense water?

We call that a nerdgasm.

What Atlanta area restaurants? What Atlanta area restaurants? This looks so cool.

Coca-Cola 'adopted' my elementary school in Atlanta back in the mid-80s...I think I was one of the first to taste New Coke, introduced by Max Headroom in a school-wide assembly..."C-c-c-catch the wave!"

@gtsports: I would like to know the same information. Because I might actually hunt down this machine and report back.

@Hawkins: Correction: It's flavored HFCS water. Sugar's too fancy for them.

Great. So in addition to a dispenser periodically running out of CO2 and ice, it may need to be rebooted to make it give out a drink. This is progress!

I'll bet it sends out an email message to managers when it needs to be refilled or serviced. Or posts on Twitter, who knows.

"Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."

@gtsports: Anyone in southern California, the linked story gave the address of one of the Jack in the Box with the machine as 260 Melose Ave. in Vista, CA.

Well I think it's cool. The interface is a little slow but every kid's favorite part of using a soda fountain is mixing all the flavors together. Makes sense that they'd put all the essential syrup flavorings in one machine and have it all mix it up for you. Kind of the return of the skilled hand of a soda jerk.

I'd be even more impressed if the flavoring agents and the sweetening agents were separate so you could get diet versions of any flavor they have, but, from the display, it doesn't look to be the case.

@logicalnoise: Water? You mean like outta the toilet?

Does it dispense the Coke with real sugar?? I'd LOVE to have that option in a restaurant. Tastes sooo much better.

The touch interface integration is really cool - however, I can't help but grin over the response time of the general interaction. Those subtle delays, momentary pauses, low framerates and slow wiping transitions are just enough to drive me impatiently crazy. And then small back buttons... arghhh. Surely they could've used a faster processor chip to speed up the response of the display?

With manual dispensers I can reach in, dispense, and be on my way. This futuristic machine, adds steps on top of feeling slow.

"I want a squishee made entirely..... of SYRUP."

(*gasp* such a thing has never been done)

@CaptainSemantics: As would I, Ive been wanting to see this in action ever since I first heard about it. When I heard some old lady hugged it I thought I gotta see thsi

@thefranchise2: that made me laugh a little, nice reference.

Damn, those guys in the second video were pretty excited, almost excited enough to be part of a covert viral marketing campaign. While I admit that the huge range of choices is pretty cool, it doesn't blow my socks off like the space-age milkshake robots at Wawa.

If it has NEW coke (now Coke II), sign me the hell up for one! I'll have it in my home if I have to.

Tired of Diet Coke being the best tasting coke. I want to have a good tasting Coke made with SUGAR again.

@logicalnoise:

Well, it dispenses Dasani.

Oh wait, you wanted *water*. Well, perhaps there's a club soda option? You could let it sit a while.

Interesting - my college had a coin-operated soda dispenser that mixed syrup and carbonated water in a cup. I usually got Coke and it was hands down the best tasting Coke I'd ever had.

Wait, wait, wait a sec. - Coca-Cola with Orange? With Raspberry?!

I have now seen it all.

Gimme a Pepsi Free.

So when the person before you gets a drink that you don't like, does your drink end up being flavored by the residue? I've already had to boycott non-Wendy's shakes because the strawberry undertones are too disgusting.

@jbrecken: "He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

@jbrecken: Yes John Luke!

Props to the first person who hacks one of these and unloads the entire inventory onto unsuspecting shop owner's flooring.

I would bet the entire system is networked, so maybe it could be done at every location simultaneously.

Other thoughts... I wonder how hygienic the machine is. That is, how often it has to be cleaned and how often it will be in reality. I'm also curious how it uses the same nozzle to dispense multiple drinks without cross-contaminating their flavoring.

@NotYou007: You have an excellent point. It's a cool machine, but it has several efficiency problems from a fast food standpoint:

-you can only pour one drink at a time
-people may take a while to figure out the machine and get past the "wow" factor, thereby annoying the people in line
-the touch screen interface is slower than just pushing your cup under the beverage dispenser of your choice
-some customers may develop "beverage choice overload", which could cause them to take forever just to pour the freaking drink.

@NotYou007: You stole the words out of my mouth. If you don't know what you want.. move over!

Wonderful! :D Fountain Pop > Can or bottle. It's all about the flatness.

@DjDynasty:

That's 'Jean Luc', but I still approve.

@Hawkins: Shouldn't you be standing on your porch and shaking your fist at the children playing on your lawn?

I kid, I kid!

Mixing all the flavors together is going to take for damn ever now!

@NotYou007: The people who don't know how to swipe & enter a PIN do not bother me to much.

The people who bother me are:

1. The ones who write a check, but DON'T START TO WRITE IT UNTIL THEY GET THEIR TOTAL - Hey stupid, you just stood in line for 5 minutes - ever think about getting the check started & just write in the amount later?

2. The ones who wait until the total is given to ever start to look for their card and/or money. It like they are surprised when it comes time to pay and don't even think about having the card or cash READY to pay, and then after standing in line for 5 minutes, you wait another minute as they fumble through their purse and/or wallet to find the item.

@larrymac: Was this in the ship that hung in the air in the same way a brick doesn't?

Still won't be the greatest bagel slicer ever. It was at Finagle a Bagel in Boston, MA

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@wheresmymind: Yeah, about 15 seconds in I though "viral marketing?"

@thefranchise2: That comment deserves praise

I desperately want to try the raspberry Coke and Sprite.

@jbrecken: @larrymac: I love you both.

@futuresuperbowlMVPJayCutler: Hey you want a Pepsi pal, you're gonna pay for it.

7-11 has similar machines- you pick the soda you want, and you can add 'flavors' which puts a shot of syrup in while you're dispensing, and all the sodas come out of one nozzle.

Filling drinks for more than one person at the same time, we didn't notice any funny flavors or aftertaste from other sodas.

Plus the machine is pretty cool looking.

@futuresuperbowlMVPJayCutler: You wanna Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!

@Hawkins: lol @ 0:24. "OHHHHHH WAAAOOHHHH"

@djanes1:

don't look now, but Wendy's is introducing a strawberry frosty. . .

Wow, I can understand someone being a little proud or even smug about some exceptional skills they possess, but to be so proud of having the ability to use a card reader or Redbox machine just boggles the mind. You just go use your new beverage dispenser and I will try to stay out of your way.

I'm not really impressed until it comes with Surge.

That said, all it's doing is giving you the normal range of products, then giving you the option of adding a fruit flavor shot to the mix. If it were formulating complex mixes, I'd be impressed, but I'm betting they've got syrup tanks of coke, sprite, fanta, barqs, etc in the back, and the only thing that makes this unique is the addition of peach, raspberry, etc.