Officially the best thing ever

I have discovered the Holy Grail of vending machines.

It's a coffee machine, but no ordinary coffee machine. Oh no. This one has a TV screen. And samba music.

I encountered the beast at a rest stop on my recent sojourn to Nagoya. I had actually crossed paths with the blighter a few weeks before on my trip to Kyoto, but returned from the adventure with no hard evidence of the automaton's existence. This time, however, I have photographic proof, combined with the testimony of four eye witnesses. Finally I can reveal the truth.........the intelligent machines are here, and they're living among us.

As you step up to the cabinet a centrally mounted TV screen features a rolling advertisement for the myriad of coffees and other beverages on offer. (I plumped for Ethiopian coffee with milk and two sugars.) Once your money's in though, the fun really begins....

Samba music starts blaring out of nowhere and suddenly the TV screen switches to a camera inside the machine. That's right, INSIDE the machine. You watch in awe as the coffee beans you selected fall out of a chute and into a coffee grinder. The viewpoint switches to another camera as the ground beans are mixed with hot water and strained. The samba music builds as the fresh coffee is poured into a waiting cup, and the machine switches cameras yet again so you can see a robot arm screw a lid onto the hot cup. One final viewpoint switch now as coffee trundles forward and the plastic door in the front of the machine slides back. The electronic cymbals reach fever pitch before dying away in a terminal crash as the freshly brewed coffee is presented before you.

Brilliant. I don't care if the robots take over, as long as they make coffee this good.