Car Wash Blog / Self Serve Industry Blog and Forum
These pictures show the beautiful Birmingham Alabama International Airport. Do flights even go international directly from Birmingham? Or by international do they mean around our nation? So it should be Birmingham National Airport? I don’t know but I do know that I have a direct flight to Las Vegas, which is awesome!
While at the ICA show I saw this really expensive Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer machine with receipt printer and bill acceptor? It is always a bad sign to have a problem at a trade show.
To view all my pictures for April 1st, 2009 – ICA Trade Show 2009 click HERE. This was before the show was officially open and you had to have a special badge to get in.
This product is coming soon and is just for MDB coin changers/coin mechs right now. But this cool new MEI product is the Cashflow Series 2000 VNR Vending Recycler. It has a flashy front bezel with leds on it and can also use standard non-flashy bezels. But the best feature is the bill recycler piece. The recycler module holds up to 30 bills then will spit them out for change instead of a bill breaker. Just think about having one of these in your entry unit and giving bills as change instead of change!
UPDATED 20160820: http://www.meigroup.com/usa/vending/vending_products/bill_acceptors/vn2700_bill_validator/datasheet.pdf
The show was packed this year and their seems to be some cool new items. I will show you some when I have a little more time, sorry.
So walking into the show I realized that there were metal detectors? Really? For Bette Midler? Was there an assassination atempt I missed in the news? But after the metal detector, there was “empty your pockets” and you have to “check your camera”! What! Check your camera? I did not even want to take a picture until then. So I took a picture.
The last picture shows the checked camera line.
I got a distributor pass from Trans-Mate so I was able to walk the floor early. (Thanks Trans-Mate; I am actually switching to their chemicals.). The floor seemed smaller than last year with less booths but we will have to wait on attendance. But it is always exciting to walk the floor!
Not that much happened today so far except for the 4 1/2 hour flight to Vegas. We did eat at a buffet for dinner which is always good.
Are you going to Vegas? I’m going, so if you want to go to Bette Midler for me let me know. Maybe we can make a trade for the ticket? Then I can use the money for something better like alcohol. Seriously, if you are going to the ICA show let me know.
