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have you ever waited in line have you ever been bored have you ever had nothing to do for minutes on end short editions of publishing house in France and again it's stories shared more widely they came up with this neat idea of putting dispensers in public places like airports hospitals restaurants the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was so impressed with one he brought one back over to the US and installed in his cafe zoetrope what's neat about this is there's over 85,000 different stories you can get by pushing one of these buttons and they're printed on a piece of paper about the size of a receipt paper but there are papers thick has a nice feel to it you read the story and like most people I found myself sharing the story with someone next to me and it's kind of a little more fun than looking at my phone or scorns the social media the short rate dispenser is not designed for consumers is for businesses and governments to install like public places right now there you have a few of them in the US and they're hoping to roll out more in 2018 if you can't see one in person check out their website we could actually read the stories there so this is Patrick with CNET at unveiled at CES 2018