Pay-to-use cash machines get feature bloated

Not content with being guilty of supporting the vile proliferation of pay-to-use cash points, metal box firm, Bank Machine has now produced a multi-function digital Kiosk offering mobile top-up, ring-tone downloads, digital printing, a juke box, and interactive gaming.

The wireless-enabled Kiosk is aimed at supermarkets, railway stations, leisure centres, colleges, pubs and airports, says the company.

We can no doubt now look forward to a plethora of ATM rage attacks as irate customers wishing to withdraw £50 are forced to remonstrate with pustular teenagers and little old ladies playing Space Invaders or printing copies of their holiday snaps while causing queues around the block.

Perhaps, in a bizarre synergy, feature-bloated mobile phones and ATMs can join forces and enable happy slappers to print hard copies of the pictures they've just taken of the people they've mugged at the cashpoint. µ