The pizza machine has all the Italian chefs up in arms—and I can't blame them. After all, can it make a Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger? It can't.

Created by Claudio Torghele with some technology developed at the University of Bologna, it does it all. Mixes the flour and water into dough, makes the base, adds the tomato sauce, and finally puts the toppings on top. The whole process takes three minutes, thanks to the use of infrared rays. You can imagine the results. According to Torghele:

This is not just a vending machine, it's a mini-pizzeria. It has windows where you can watch the pizza-making process. Kids, including my own, love it: when the machine is working, there's always a crowd.

According to me:

It's a disgrace.

Oh well, at least one of the toppings is bacon. [Reuters]

Revealed at CES, this Coke vending machine from Sapient has a completely interactive touchscreen front panel that lets you view the product before you purchase it—just like how you would in the grocery store. Simply select which bottle of pop you want, give it a spin to peruse its ingredients, marvel the barcode, and check out whatever else you need to know about it before purchasing it (with either cash or a credit card).

Sapient's Coke machines are set to be available sometime soon in the 190+ malls owned by the Simon Property Group. However, the rest of the world may have to wait until 2010 until they could touch one of these babies. View the very first hands-on first impressions below. [Engadget Thanks Peter!]

Ah yes, Blam, for employing me, Wilson, for editing me, Benny, for making me laugh. And finally, my husband, for loving me.

And now, I think, a little drinky is in order. [today and tomorrow]

Now I hate pervasive advertising as much as, if not more than, the next guy, but this is awesome. Its rare that you actually get rewarded for watching an ad, even when it's so very valuable to advertisers. I'll watch all the ads you want, just give me free stuff. I'm not a complicated man. –Adam Frucci

Product Page [via Digital World Tokyo]

Human vending machine in Tokyo [Via Coolest-Gadgets]

Simple and unethical. Just the way you like it. – Jason Chen

How to: Hack a Vending Machine? [TechEBlog]

The machines will be called INSTANTMOTO—spelling it in ALL CAPS is required before use—and is already set up in SFO and Chicago's downtown Macy's store. To purchase stuff, you use the touch screen and your debit or credit card. And to prevent the thing snagging and you getting ripped off, your card is only charged when the sensors detect you removing it from the bin. Nifty.

The video is of Crecente trying out the Sony version, poking around as if English were his fourth language. – Jason Chen

Motorola Tests Phone Vending Machines [Digital Trends]

Clip: PSP Kiosk In Action [Kotaku]

Sony Products Sold in Automated Kiosks [QJ.net]

We'll probably never buy anything expensive from an iPod vending machine, except maybe a cable, like if we were on a trip and had left ours at home, but damn if this video of it going through its paces isn't strangely mesmerizing. Would you ever be comfortable spending hundreds of dollars at a vending machine?

[via The Consumerist]

This thing is a pizza vending machine. It's quite old, but I haven't seen it before and I could actually use one in my basement lair here. I would look like a little ball of processed "flour-based" food source if I ate it all day, though. [Thanks, Ryan]

Product Page [Wonder Pizza]