Hand a child an ice cream you'll generally be rewarded with a beaming smile, but with this new interactive vending machine, it's the smile that gets rewarded – with a free ice cream. Created for ...

WITH ice in hot demand this festive season, it’s the perfect time for Shane and Kerry Turner to launch Mackay’s latest initiative: ice vending machines. The Kooler Ice machines, which are the size of ...

SWANSEA — Babies born the last two years have come to be affectionately known as pandemic babies. Swansea resident Christopher Carreiro and his girlfriend had one too. But their little one, Owen ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steve Slagle, a 42-year-old entrepreneur from Panama City Beach, Florida, about ice vending machines. It has been edited for length and clarity.

SINGAPORE - Pay and play for your ice cream treat. That is the idea behind Happy Ice's vending machines. The Singapore company has installed more than 40 of these machines which operate like arcade ...