An iPod or PSP To Go?
While at the Las Vegas Hilton last month, after the Sony Keynote, I was wandering about to a meeting when I stumbled across a vending machine selling tech toys. I thought this was incredibly apropos considering it was during the Consumer Electronics Show, and figured it had been planted at the Hilton for just that reason.
While discussing the machine with my fellow bystanders, a couple of folks from Zoom Systems wandered up to service the machine and restock it, and we learned that this machine was one of approximately a dozen deployed throughout Las Vegas, and that product was selling rather quickly too. The Zoom Shop vending systems had been in place for a number of months already, as well.
So what goodies did I find in the Zoom Shop machine? Well, for starters, iPod Nanos, video iPod, headphones, arm clips, power supplies, and Sony PSPs. And not discounted as best I could tell.
A very cool idea, but the biggest drawback I see is as the vending systems didn’t sell digital music or PSP games, a purchaser would be left with a cool toy and nothing much to do with it for a bit.
