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A lovely idea of Retro-Futurism; Mr. Bowman's images of the Automat combined with many functions, including the laundry in the original tv series 'Lost in Space' in which the laundry was posted into a slot. It was invisibly broken down into its atomic components and remade, and moments later posted back in an envolope.
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« Reply #27 on: June 03, 2017, 05:42:59 am » |
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« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2017, 02:27:19 pm » |
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Interexting "update", doesn't that article come from 2010?
Or has my Tablet tricked me again?
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« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2017, 03:57:43 pm » |
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Interexting "update", doesn't that article come from 2010?
Or has my Tablet tricked me again?
It was news to me. |
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« Reply #30 on: June 06, 2017, 03:42:02 am » |
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Interesting. I was looking at a completely unrelated article, and down at the bottom was a link to this: http://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Crowds-flock-to-new-S-F-tech-friendly-fast-food-6478759.phpThe two year old article is about a new restaurant where you order through your smart phone and pick up your plate at a numbered window. The food is quinoa bowls, which doesn't appeal to my midwestern tastes, but it looks like food that could eventually be prepared by automated machinery; a completely automated automat. |
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« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2017, 04:47:17 pm » |
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Here in the Antipodes , vending machine food is fairly mainstream. Soft drinks, water, fruit juice, flavored milk, candy bars [called chocolate bars here even if they don't have chocolate ], packets of nuts, potato chips etc. , sandwiches. They are in the usual places Iike hospitals, some car parks, cafeteria, work places.
Though I can see a market for other snacks and meals, and other venues the could be utilised in. Transport centres , laundromat, rest stops.
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« Reply #32 on: June 09, 2017, 06:38:57 pm » |
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Automat isn't quite the same thing as vending machines; at an automat there is a kitchen on the other side of the bank of coin-operated doors, with someone constantly restocking the compartments with fresh plates.
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« Reply #33 on: June 10, 2017, 12:05:29 pm » |
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Automat isn't quite the same thing as vending machines; at an automat there is a kitchen on the other side of the bank of coin-operated doors, with someone constantly restocking the compartments with fresh plates.
Then we have nothing here as excellent as that. I could see a few places where thar could work too. |
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« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2018, 03:01:57 am » |
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Robot food preparation is probably no less appetising than manual - though I can see where things could go horribly wrong
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« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2018, 03:36:22 pm » |
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But is it really an automat? If you still need to have an employee pick up the prepared food and supervise the machines? Not that I want a fully automated experience. Same as a self driving car, things can and will go horribly wrong at some point. I'd hate to have my stomach pumped or worse surgically opened after an accident involving a robot.
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