Time for us to admit another entrant into the hall of unnecessary, but cool inventions. Installed at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station yesterday, this latest spin on the vending machine dispenses with those silly windows unto what you're buying and furnishes its user with a 47-inch touch panel from which to make his (or her) selection. An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances. And don't worry, it'll store your purchasing history too, so you can be freaked out by tailored ads every time you use it. 500 more of these WiMAX-equipped units are planned to be installed in and around Tokyo over the next two years, with operating company JR East expecting them to tally up 30 percent more sales than their analog brethren. More bling equals higher revenue? Sounds about right.

ckeck out the video below to see how it works.

New vending machine from JapanRailwayWaterBuisiness has installed in shinagawa station august 10 2010

It costs 5 times expensive than normal vending machine. But it has so many
amazing function

It has 47inch Touch screen in the front and video camra on the top of the machine.
When you stand in front of this vending machine, it automatically distinguish your
sex and age from your face to tell you the reccomeded drink for you.

In the video, When young lady stand before the vending machine,
the machine choosed tea for her diet and beauty
and when Businessman comes,it choosed coffee for break

Camra on this vending machine can identify persons age every ten years old.
Accuracy rate of identifying age is about 75 percent.

It uses high speed internet "wimax" to display realtime news and images changes
its design depend on the season or weather.

Also when Disaster like earthquake occurs, it gives drink free of charge to the Victims

All you need to do is to touch the drink you want and pay with the ICcard
it takes you less than 4seconds to get the drink.