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 designed a device that fits inside of vending machines and waits 25 seconds before releasing the typical processed snacks. But healthier fare — like peanuts or popcorn — drops instantly.Think of it as a sort of "time tax." The idea is that every second you spend waiting for a snack will make you want it less, similar to how a tax on sugary drinks might get you to buy less soda, Appelhans says."We were interested in the ability to test whether time delays can nudge people to healthier choices," he says.So, he created DISC, or "Delays to Influence Snack Choice," to test the idea. The device is a platform inserted inside a vending machine that catches snacks falling from the top half of the machine, where a vending machine operator would sort all of the unhealthy snacks. On the display window, a written decal tells customers they'll have to wait for an extra 25 seconds for less-healthy snacks.When a snack falls onto DISC, it triggers a 25-second countdown on the vending machine's display screen. At the end of the countdown, DISC drops its platform and the snack falls into the vending machine's bay. Healthier snacks are all sorted into the bottom half of the vending machine and so would bypass the platform altogether.To qualify as "healthy," snacks had to meet 5 out of 7 criteria, such as packing fewer than 250 calories, 350 mg of sodium or 10 mg of added sugars per serving, containing no transfats or getting less than 35 percent of their calories from fat. (Some might quibble with that last point.)
this is some shit a rich-ass private middle school would pull
People still use vending machines? Huh.
If you're that much of a buttergolem then a 20 second wait on a Mars bar isn't really going to dissuade you.
Nobody but schools and hospitals would ever consider this idea.
Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 02, 2017, 08:17:10 PMNobody but schools and hospitals would ever consider this idea.Yeah schools is the only thing I was thinking of
Quote from: Luciana on April 02, 2017, 10:07:36 PMQuote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 02, 2017, 08:17:10 PMNobody but schools and hospitals would ever consider this idea.Yeah schools is the only thing I was thinking ofI remember when my school removed the unhealthy food from vending machines entirely. literally no one used it after that, even the staff.
Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on April 02, 2017, 06:08:07 PMPeople still use vending machines? Huh.I've got one in the common area in my uni accommodation, pretty good for getting a snack before class
Junk food is an addiction. As a fatty, a mere 25s delay is not going to prevent me from getting a bag of Doritos when I'm on my break and they're the cheapest thing in the vending machine. You know what would? Double the price of the Doritos and make the healthier alternatives cheaper. You really want to lower obesity in this country? Instate a junk food tax and subsidize healthier foods. I am a fatty, but above all I'm a cheap ass. Nothing would get me to kick that addiction faster than taxing the shit out of it.
Yeah, you say that now, but tax hikes never stopped smokers and drinkers.
Because it's not priced high enough.
Fuck you
Get out of here you hedonistic degenerate. Go slowly kill yourself with cancer inducing shit somewhere else. Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 08, 2017, 11:39:56 PMFuck you
New vending machine BTFO fatties
