Automated machines sell iPods, accessories: high-tech vending.(macbeat)(Brief article)

Macworld, April, 2006 by Honan, Mathew

Vending machines are convenient places to purchase a quick snack. Walk into the Las Vegas Hilton or the San Francisco International Airport, however, and you'll find that they are also places to pick up something much sweeter--an iPod, for example--thanks to the efforts of Zoom Systems (www.zoomsystems.com).

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each vending machine--or Zoom Shop, as the company calls them--sells a variety of high-tech items, including various iPod models, noise-canceling headphones, and cases, as well as items for the business traveler, such as cell-phone batteries ...