I built a working gumball vending machine entirely out of LEGO bricks. It takes real coins and gives out real candy. No motors, no tricks — just LEGO and clever design. Watch to see how it works!

The next time you’re in line at Nifty Nut House in downtown Wichita, look up. Above you is an unofficial museum of gum, candy and nut vending machines. Some might call it Steve Jahn’s nutty obsession.

Vending machines debuted in the United States in 1888 when the Thomas Adams Gum Company installed machines in subway platforms in New York City. These machines dispensed stick or block shaped gum. It ...

When Tori Dunlap was just nine years old, her dad bought her a three-slot gumball vending machine — with the expectation that she would turn it into a “business” and pay him back over time. Little did ...

ROCHESTER, NH (KRON) — Police are trying to figure out how prescription drugs ended up in a gumball vending machine. A child found pills inside of a prize that came out of a gumball vending machine at ...