So Instead of actually making a flying car or finding a new energy source

we now have the soda dispenser of the future

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http://www.comcast.net/video/across-america-7-23/1193314702/Comcast/1192430249/

 

...Today? Really expensive and useless soda machines! Tomorrow, flying cars!

No seriously, a lot of extra expense for one of those for the same general thing. Totally useless IMO, especially when you think about how worn out that touch screen is going to get. The Nintendo DS systems on display at Target and Best Buy are bad enough.

Don't get me wrong, they're cool and I'd have endless fun with them.

But...

People could spend their time, money and resources on something much more... Impacting. .__.

 

I totally agree, the economy is going down and we a re wasting our money on something we really did not need

 

Do we need a ipod like soda machine with close to 100 choices, no. It's bad enough when you have 8 choices and no one can make up their mind. We've not found a cure to cancer, another fuel source, a way to repair our ozone BUT HEY! I can have twenty versions of Fanta at my fingertips.

 

Don't forget, we also don't need to turn the knob on public bathroom sinks anymore either! Whoopee! No longer will we have to pull out paper towels either in public bathrooms! NOW WE JUST WAVE OUR HAND IN FRONT OF THE DISPENSER!! LIFE IS GOOD!

 

'.'
Nice to know they been using their money for something worthless. can't wait to see what worthless thing is invented next.

 

My sister told me they had invented the hover car but it was only one and that they have to make copies. XD but IDK if your being serious or not. And I guess with the coke-a-cola machine thing... they just didn't have anything else to do.

 

*sigh*
The Coke company is not going to waste its time with finding a cure to cancer or inventing the flying car. It has its own field and specialty and should stick with just that.
They have their own engineers and scientists who work on the projects they get paid for with money that you spend on cola from vending machines.
Life's not as simple as you wish it to be, kids. We don't get to choose what should be invented next and by whom.

The sheer amount of members here who seem to need a wake-up call on that slightly disturbs me though.
Instead of being frustrated that the newest invention launched at the consumer is again not the flying car (boo-hoo, my heart is bleeding), you could be glad that we still have creative minds altogether. But apparently we're much happier and feel much smarter by being pessimist and listing all the things that we still can't do. That makes sense.

 

We're upset because this invention was a waste of time, an absolutely unneccesary idea. It's like inventing something that helps a person turn on the TV with a press of a button so they don't have to get off their lazy a-
Oh, wait.....

 

Calling inventions for saving time, albeit a handful of seconds, a waste of time is quite ironic. And what reason do you have to be upset anyway? I don't recall your time being wasted when the remote control was invented.

 

Dude I want one in my house.

 

My point is, why are things being invented that, when has one has this invention, saves a total of 4-5 seconds of their life. Can't these people find something...Productive, meaningful to do? Were people demanding a high-tech vendor? Were there crowd riots because we weren't supplied with automatic sinks and paper towel vendors? They're fixing stuff that ain't broken.

 

"no human hands involved"
My goodness people are getting extremely lazy. If they can't even push down a little lever then what can they do? It's an unnecessary expense.

 

And my point is, why be so negative about something that doesn't hinder anyone by its existence?

 

Complaining is fun. Especially when your a teenager. =)
Anyways, it's stuff like this that, in the long run, keeps the people of our country nice, lazy and fat. =D
Oh, we could feed starving children with the money used for this automatic stuff.

 

It'll probably still taste like shit at McDonalds ones.

 

This is pretty cool, actually. Although unnecesarry, it's still cool.

 

^This.asdasd

 

If they have money to work on such unnecessary projects, it's because we fund them by consuming products from their company.
It's basic supply and demand: we become lazy and fat because we want to be. The Coke company and its projects aren't to blame; we're indirectly pushing them into developing new products. It's hypocritical to talk about "them" inventing useless stuff. We have only ourselves to blame. We prefer to drink another cola rather than give a few dollars to poor kids, and thus the companies we buy and consume from ponder about what the consumer would want next. My point is proven by these last few posters who think this is a cool idea.

You're only as lazy as you want to be, and passing the blame to someone else can be a form of laziness in itself. This is all painfully easy to understand. Seriously, what do they teach you kids these days?

 

I think the invention is alright (you'll see why i dont necessarily like it myself below)

See, I'd have to say that the invention is more like digital television. I mean yes, it digital TV does have a different impact for aircrafts, but still. The public didn't exactly need it.

Which is why I say that the public doesn't necessarily need this new drinking machine. I'm pretty sure the ones we have currently are pretty good. Plus i hate touch screens. They don't work for me for some reason.I don't feel like finding a cure for cancer or flying cars is as important as you've been saying it is, as of this current moment in time. BUt it is important.. some of it. THe cancer part.

Especially the flying car thing. I mean, it's dangerous enopugh being on the road and driving. Think about it when you have to look in every direction when driving. You'd probably need a passenger to look around with you.

I'm not going to say that the Coke Company should help in findin a cure for cancer or helping the enviroment with finding a new, reusable clean and efficient fuel source for cars, but they could at least show some interest. Which they probably do.

But hey, I'm just glad that for a few seconds, we weren't learning death, poverty, or crisis on the news!