The Registers Simon Sharwood wrote up his experiences with perky vending machines from Intel and Microsoft. Microsoft recently announced a cloud-based service designed to manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices, collect the data they produce, and route it to tools; think business intelligence and related data-crunchers. Intel machine put Sharwood into the rather broad age range of 20-39, which pleased the writer, who’s about to turn 46, in Tokyo on Thursday, in order to better target its animations at subway visitors.”]