The Vending Machine You Should Eat From

We've come to associate vending machine choices with largely negative health repercussions—despite a growing push for them to stock more nutritionally sound choices. This new "automated kiosk" offering from a Chicago company might just be the answer to the ol' vending machine's plummeting approval ratings. Instead of chips and candy, they stock gourmet salads made from locally-sourced, organic ingredients. The meals come in recyclable plastic jars, so there's also less planet-harming waste after the fact. As of now, the vending machines are limited to the Chicago area, but here's hoping they'll spring up in other places and inspire imitators in 2014.