Apart from soft drinks and snacks, you can now get T-shirts from your neighbourhood vending machine. It's not a bird, it’s not a plane ... it’s a T-shirt vending machine! Joy Nandy, founder and inventor of Social Network Merchandise.com, aims to change the retail landscape with his ingenious idea of compacting a conventional shop into a mere vending machine. “It’s like a UFO has just landed in Malaysia. A complete attention grabber. Just get the product in front of your eyes and the rest falls in place,” chuckles Nandy on the effectiveness of the machine. A genuine Malaysian creation, the country’s first T-shirt vending machine can be found garnering attention from curious shoppers at the cinema at Curve Shopping Centre in Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. His reasoning for this placement is due to the fact that thousands of people go to the cinema each day. Based on the viral social network media, the T-shirts are designed with words such as
The first vending machines for the increasingly popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin , has appeared in Malaysia. Singapore-based Numoni Pte Ltd has installed two Auto Vending Machines (AVM) in Bangsar Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur and Gurney Plaza in Penang last weekend. The new AVMs were installed after Numoni announced the Bitcoin AVM in Spain last month. The company also installed four AVMs in its native island state. Interestingly, the company is looking to install another eight AVMs for a total of ten Bitcoin AVMs this year, and a total of 100 over the next three years. “Numoni is especially pleased to launch our machines in Malaysia as the machines are assembled in Malaysia in our Senai factory. The machine was fully developed by Numoni in Singapore since 2012,” said Numoni CEO Norma Sit. These Bitcoin AVMs work by reading a Bitcoin owner’s unique QR code, and accepts 22 physical currencies to purchase the cryptocurrency. These AVMs are also fully secured with banking sec