RobRoy1975Anyone who has travelled in Japan has encountered the ubiquitous jidōhanbaiki vending machines selling cans of hot and cold drinks. Nancy Cadet, New York, by emailI was quite impressed to see vending machines with bottles of whisky in them in Japan. Jane Reed, by emailThere’s a wine bar in my town that has a wine vending machine. If that’s not mind-blowing enough, the molecular-assembler-type vending machines would, in turn, be able to assemble molecular-assembler-type vending machines. LhurgoyfI’ve always fancied running a vending machine business, so … vending machines?