A delay can help people pick healthier snacks. Creative Commons When faced with a 3 p.m. stomach grumble, it’s pretty difficult to pick a Clif bar over a Snickers. But this new vending machine thinks ...

If you wanted a bag of Doritos from one of Brad Appelhans' experimental vending machines, you'd have to wait. The associate professor of preventative medicine at Rush University Medical Center ...

In the future, you may need a snack machine's approval. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine has facial-recognition technology, meaning it can, apparently, identify customers and remember their ...

Delaying access to tempting, high-calorie foods and snacks in vending machines potentially can shift people's choices to purchase less desired, but healthier snack options, new research suggests.

Say you’re feeling angry. Or you’re feeling sad. A little lonely, maybe. In any one of these scenarios, you might reach for a snack — a chocolate bar, or a bag of potato chips. But imagine that you ...

BENSALEM, Pa. — Forget the clanging of coins. It’s more the sounds of silence at the vending machines in area schools these days. Many students aren’t buying the healthy snacks, fruit juices and water ...

Longtime Marlborough resident Mike Blair launched his own business, bringing high-tech coolers to local schools and sporting facilities.

In the middle of a nationwide obesity epidemic, a handy device dripping with temptation often lurks around the workplace corner – the vending machine. America’s vending machine industry earned $21.6 ...