In the image above you have one vending machine of iPad tablets installed in the library Drexler University from the US as part of a program that aims to give students the opportunity to rent the Apple product instead of books for studies or anything else they need. The project is carried out by the university and an organization called the Free Library of Philadephia, the machine containing no less than 12 tablets that students can rent whenever they want without paying a penny for them, the condition being that they are returned intact.
iPad tablets have pre-installed a series of applications that allow them to explore information from various fields such as art, literature, geography, music, news, or science, and those who want to play or read the news have other applications dedicated to this type of action. The interesting part is that the iPad tablets will automatically delete all the data recorded in them when they are returned to the machine, so that any new person who rents the tablet will not be able to see the browsing history of the previous student and will not be able to access any kind of information stored in the tablet.
Residents of Philadelphia's Mantua and Powelton Village neighborhoods bordering Drexel's campus will be able to use their Free Library of Philadelphia card to sign out an iPad and use it for a maximum of four hours. With a swipe of their Drexel ID, students will also be able to check out an iPad.
In 2013, those from Drexler ran a program similar to a MacBook vending machine, which could be rented for a day by students, and the idea seems to have been successful since it has now moved on to renting iPad tablets, these being easier to distribute even in larger quantities. Considering the interest in iPad tablet vending machines, the representatives of the university claim that they will install multiple such machines in various locations of the campus, and their idea could be taken over by other American universities as well.
