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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesVENDING MACHINESLights! Action! Roll 'Em!
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- The process is as simple as getting your snapshot taken in
- a dime-store photo booth. But instead of spitting out a strip
- of black-and-white pictures, the vending machines from Short
- Takes, a Minneapolis company, record an instant video greeting.
- Customers pay $10 for a blank cassette, which they insert in a
- slot in the machine. Then a camera in the booth records ten
- minutes of monologue, mugging or whatever message the customer
- wants to send. A mailing envelope is included.
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- Short Takes has installed 20 booths so far in New York City
- and Minnesota, and plans to distribute 1,000 more around the
- U.S. during the next year or so. Coming later this summer: Baby
- Takes. Proud parents in maternity wards at three Minneapolis
- hospitals will soon be able to introduce the newest ham in the
- family. Come on, kid, wave!
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