Two supermarkets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania are piloting a new auto-vend wine dispenser, which should only give you a bottle if you can prove you're over-age, and you're sober.
AP reports the machines are the size of four large fridges, though the wines are kept at room temperature. A customer chooses a wine on a touch-screen display, swipes an ID, blows into an alcohol sensor (no contact with the machine is required) and looks into a surveillance camera. A state employee in Harrisburg remotely approves the sale after verifying the buyer matches the photo ID. The kiosks only takes credit or debit cards, and are closed on Sundays and holidays.
Presumably the angle of the surveillance camera notes who's really blowing into the sensor.
Found on Gawker.
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